Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 – LENSCRATCH

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Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 – LENSCRATCH

The Center for Photographic Art recently opened Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023, a solo exhibition by renowned photographer Michael Kenna. In celebration of Kenna’s fiftieth year as a photographer, CPA partnered with Nazraeli Press to create this retrospective exhibition which includes some of the artist’s most beloved images as well as others that may not be

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/11/michael-kenna/

About the book: Kenna has selected one image for each year beginning in 1973 (when he enrolled in the Banbury School of Art, right after leaving seminary boarding school) and for each subsequent year. Following the “Photographs” section is “Stories”, in which Kenna writes a brief text about each photograph in the book, and how the making of it related to his own life’s situation at the time.