Michael Kenna is an English photographer working almost exclusively in black & white with a medium format camera (for his published and exhibited work). He is a reknowned photographer, with a real liking in the general audience for his refined landscapes and his numerous books, usually focused on aspecific location (e.g. Venice, the Huangshan mountains in China, Easter Island, the Mont Saint-Michel, etc.)
He has published a large number of photobooks, and among the more recent ones a series of nudes titled "Rafu" (Nazraeli, 2019), "Holga" (Prestel, 2017) of images made with this pared-down plastic camera, and "One Sunday in Beijing" (Editions Bessard, 2018) which presents for the first time a published color image by Kenna (on the cover of the book).
His most recent book "Northern England 1983-1983", an older seires created in his early career in his home country, was published by his long-time partner Nazraeli in 2021.
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Presentation by Nazraeli: " « This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna's far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able...
.Sold out. Presentation by Nazraeli Press: " For over thirty years, Michael Kenna has photographed temples, shrines, gardens, seascapes and landscapes, in black and white, throughout Japan. Ten years ago, he also began to photograph female nudes in various locations in Japan. A selection of these photographs was unveiled to the public for the first time...
Dans ce livre hommage aux déportés, Michael Kenna a voulu nous faire rentrer dans les bâtiments des camps et nous montre les tours, les murs, les cheminées, les couloirs, des objets. C'est suite à un premier voyage à Natzweiler en 1986 lors d'un voyage en France que naquit ce besoin de documenter à sa façon les camps, dans un travail qu'il n'avait pas eu...