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Michael Kenna was born on 20 November, 1953 in Widnes, Lancashire, England, is a British photographer. Discover Michael Kenna's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 20 November 1953
Birthday 20 November
Birthplace Widnes, Lancashire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1953

Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours.

His photos concentrate on the interaction between ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass.

Many books have been published of his work, the subjects of which range from The Rouge, in Dearborn Michigan, to the snow-covered island of Hokkaido, Japan.

Kenna's work is also held in permanent collections at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Kenna was born in 1953 in the industrial town of Widnes in the northwest of England.

Kenna grew up with five siblings in a poor, working-class, Irish-Catholic family.

He attended seminary school for seven years (until age 17), with the intention of becoming a priest.

After discovering his talent for art, he decided against joining the holy priesthood in favor of a more creative career, despite the fact that his family would not have considered his interest a realistic livelihood option.

1976

After a year at the Banbury School of Art, where he received his first photographic instruction, Kenna applied to the London College of Printing in both the graphic design and commercial photography departments, figuring he would go with the one that accepted him first (he graduated from the latter, in 1976).

While pursuing his hobby of landscape photography, he took every chance to practice his craft commercially.

He photographed theater dress rehearsals, and for record companies and the press; assisted other photographers, and sold stock photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell Capa, Marc Riboud and Jacques-Henri Lartigue for the John Hillelson Agency on Fleet Street.

1977

In 1977, Kenna moved to San Francisco for the opportunity to show and sell his work in galleries.

There, he met Ruth Bernhard, who hired him as her printer in 1977.

Over the next eight years, she introduced him to the creative potential of the printing process, in her unique methods of manipulating and interpreting a negative.

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.

1986

Since about 1986 he has mainly used Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras and this accounts for the square format of most of his photographs.

The main exception was for the photographs in Monique's Kindergarten for which a 4×5 large format camera was employed.

His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia and Europe.

He has photographs 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.

2000

In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.

2010

His photography of the ruins of concentration camps was featured in the opening credits of the Holocaust film Esther's Diary (2010).

Kenna has also done commercial work for such clients as Volvo, Rolls-Royce, Audi, Sprint, Dom Perignon and The Spanish Tourism Board.