Michael Kenna - Fifty Years
Presented in partnership with G.Gibson Projects
August 3 - September 2, 2023
Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, August 3, 6-8 PM
Book Signing: Saturday, August 26, 2-4 PM
2023 marks 50 years of photography by British artist Michael Kenna. Celebrated as one of the world’s most prominent landscape photographers, Kenna is known for his poetic black & white images from around the globe. The Harris Harvey Gallery exhibit will highlight works from the last 3 decades, with the following countries represented in Kenna’s travels – France, Japan, China, Italy, Myanmar, South Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the U.S. The exhibition is presented in partnership with G.Gibson Projects, Seattle, Washington.
Michael Kenna (British, b. 1953) was born in Widnes, England. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. His long time-exposures, which might last throughout the night, often record details in the photographs that the human eye is not able to perceive.
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Michael Kenna - Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Study 4, France. 2022, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Floating Abbey, Mont St. Michel, France. 2000, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - Bookstalls, Study 2, Paris, France. 2011, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - James Island, Study 4, La Push, Washington. 2014, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - Avenue of the Giants, Humbolt, California, USA. 1998, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - Shaman Rock, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan. 2018, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - White Copse, Study 4, Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan. 2020, gelatin silver print, 15.5 x 16.5 in. $12,000
Michael Kenna - Shimanami Kaido, Study 1, Kagawa, Shikoku, Japan. 2022, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Torii, Study 4, Takashima, Honshu, Japan. 2007, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Fishing Nets and Mt. Daisen, Yatsuka, Honshu, Japan. 2002, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $8000
Michael Kenna - Still Morning, Obama, Honshu, Japan. 2002, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Blackstone Hill Tree, Hokkaido, Japan. 2020, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Tranquil Morning, Awaji Island, Shikoku, Japan. 2002, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Taushubetsu Bridge, Nukabira, Hokkaido, Japan. 2008, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $7000
Michael Kenna - Fourteen Trees, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. 2009, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - Spruce Tree and Snow Clouds, Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan. 2023, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Birds on Poles, Biwa Lake, Honshu, Japan. 2001, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $7000
Michael Kenna - Hillside Fence, Study 9, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan. 2023, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Erhai Lake, Study 12, Yunnan, China. 2014, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Seaweed Farms, Study 3, Xiapu, Fujian, China. 2010, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Lijiang River, Study 11, Guilin, China. 2006, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $2500
Michael Kenna - Yuanyang, Yunnan, China, Study 6, China. 2013, gelatin silver print, 16.25 x 15.5 in. $10,000
Michael Kenna - Reflected Tree, Hongkun, Anhui, China. 2007, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $2500
Michael Kenna - Aquaculture Structure, Boseong, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. 2018, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Ortucchio Lake Reflection, Fucino, Abruzzo, Italy. 2016, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Morning Clouds, Pacentro, Abruzzo, Italy. 2016, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3500
Michael Kenna - Ponti de Spagna, Bondeno, Ferrara, Italy. 2018, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Spring Poplar Trees, Pavia, Italy. 2019, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 1, Otago, New Zealand. 2013, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4000
Michael Kenna - Six Flying Birds, Bath, Avon, England. 1987, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
Michael Kenna - Morning Mists, Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar. 2019, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $4500
Michael Kenna - Happy Birthday Freya, Geneva, Switzerland. 2021, gelatin silver print, 8 x 8 in. $3000
During Michael Kenna’s career, his photographs have been shown in over five hundred one-person gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world, and are included in over a hundred permanent institutional collections, including; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Michael Kenna received the prestigious Officer des Arts et des Lettres medal in Paris in 2022.
Over ninety monographs and exhibition catalogs have been published on Kenna’s work, including Michael Kenna – A Twenty Year Retrospective (Treville, 1994 and Nazraeli Press, 2000); Japan (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2003); Michael Kenna – A Retrospective (BnF, 2009); China (Posts and Telecom Press, 2014); France (Nazraeli Press, 2014); Forms of Japan (Prestel, 2015); Rouge (Prestel 2016); Beyond Architecture – Michael Kenna (Prestel 2019) ; Buddha (Prestel 2020); Northern England 1983-1986 (Nazraeli Press 2021); Flesh of Stone (Noir Editions 2022); Arbres/Trees (Skira Editions 2022).