Biographie de Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna is widely recognized as one of the world's most influential photographers working today. Born in Widnes, England, he first intended to become a Catholic priest before changing direction and studying photography at the London College of Printing. He moved to San Francisco, where he worked for ten years as a photographic printer for renowned photographer Ruth Bernhard. Kenna adopted many of Bernhard's ways of working and later developed his own distinctive and often emulated style.
Kenna's photographs have been shown in over six hundred exhibitions throughout the world. Over sixty monographs and catalogues have been published on his work, including Forms of Japan and Rouge (both Prestel). His limited-edition prints are held in the permanent collections of many institutions, such as the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris ; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. ; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography ; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Michael Kenna lives with his family in Seattle, Washington. Frances Malcolm is an editor and writer who has previously worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Museum in New York. She lives in Florence, Italy.
