Background
Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born on June 4, 1945, in Helsinki, Finland.
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In 1967 Minkkinen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, United States.
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In 1974 Minkkinen received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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ince 1977 Minkkinen was an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Arno is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born on June 4, 1945, in Helsinki, Finland.
In 1967 Minkkinen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, United States. In 1974 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
From 1976 to 1977 and from 1967 to 1972 he was an advertising copywriter in New York, United States. From 1974 to 1976 Arno taught at the Helsinki Institute of Industrial Design in Helsinki, Finland. Minkkinen taught workshops worldwide, particularly at the Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media Workshops), Maine Media College (as part of the graduate faculty), the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Anderson Ranch in Colorado, Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico, the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, and in Europe at the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France, the Toscana Photographic Workshops in Tuscany, Italy, as well as workshop programs in Finland, Norway, Luxembourg, and China.
Working in small format, the photographer produces unmanipulated self-portraits and nudes against natural landscapes, often in and around lakes and rivers. Since 1977 Minkkinen was an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Minkkinen's major influences were Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, John Benson and Ralph Hattersley.