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| Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer known for his moody landscapes. |
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| Michael Kenna |
| Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer known for his moody landscapes. |
| Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. In the 1980s,
Kenna moved to San Francisco. |
| Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10
hours. His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He also has photographs
included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of
Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the
Order of Arts and Letters. |
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