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Retrospective Two

by Michael Kenna

Photographs: Michael Kenna

Text: Anne Wilkes Tucker

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

172 pages

Pictures: 130

Year: 2004

ISBN: 978-1590051115

Comments: First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the half-title page by Kenna. Hardcover. Fine linen cloth, with title debossed on front cover and spine, with dust jacket. Designed by Hideyuki Ta

Published as a companion book to the artist's Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Kenna: Retrospective Two presents an overview of Kenna's landscape photographs made between 1994 and 2004. Michael Kenna is arguably the most influential landscape photographer of his generation. The subject of over 20 books and hundreds of solo exhibitions throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States, Michael Kenna often works at dawn or during the night. He concentrates primarily on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric conditions of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass. Kenna's exquisitely crafted prints are included in such permanent museum collections as The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2001, Michael Kenna was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. Born in Widnes, England in 1953, he currently lives in the USA. The introduction Inventing Peace by Anne W. Tucker explores Kenna s relationship to contemporary photographic ideas.

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