Michael Kenna
Italy

In Michael Kenna’s inaugural online exhibition, preceded by numerous solo exhibitions at Robert Mann Gallery, we are pleased to present images from the River Po series and the Abruzzo series. These series celebrate the natural and man-made joined in a marriage as the dual subjects of the Apennine Mountains and city’s renaissance architecture join together to enhance their shared beauty rather than compete as opposing forces. These images are from an upcoming book: Il Fiume Po, being released by Corsiero Editore in October.

“I suppose photographs reflect the photographer in the same way that paintings reflect the painter and writings the writer. If I was a writer, I would write about these things, but they are not easy to put into words, so I photograph. And every viewer interprets the images in their individual ways.” —Michael Kenna for Photomonitor, Interviewed by Patricia Baker-Cassidy, July 2019

Michael Kenna is one of the most widely exhibited and beloved photographers working today. Recently Kenna was awarded the Special Photographer Award in Hokkaido, Japan. His work has been shown at the the Tacoma Art Museum, 2012; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2011; Palazzo Magnani Museum in Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010; and Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2009. Kenna's photographs are included in many public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Shanghai Art Museum; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Born in Widnes, England in 1953, Kenna currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

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