Background
Kenna, Michael was born on November 20, 1953 in Widnes, Cheshire, England.
(This magnificent collection of African art showcases 88 o...)
This magnificent collection of African art showcases 88 of the Detroit Institute of Arts finest works, representing the full range of major sub-Saharan sculptural traditions during the past three centuries: masks, containers, carved stools, jewelry, and musical instruments. 120 photos, 99 in color.
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(Book by Cunningham, Michael R.)
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Kenna, Michael was born on November 20, 1953 in Widnes, Cheshire, England.
Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing.
In the 1980s, he moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard"s printer. 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, District of Columbia, the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His photography of the ruins of concentration camps was featured in the opening credits of the Holocaust film Esther"s Diary (2010).
(This magnificent collection of African art showcases 88 o...)
(Book by Cunningham, Michael R.)
One-man shows Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Wiltshire, England, 1983, Bampton Arts Center, Oxfordshire, 1984, Madison (Wisconsin) Art Center, 1985, Gallery Min, Tokyo, 1987, Fuerte Gallery, Tokyo, 1990, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1991, Cleveland Art Museum, 1992, International Center for Photography, New York, 1993, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, 1994, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1995, Nicephore Niepce Museum, France, 1996. Exhibited in group show Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, 1982. Represented in permanent collections Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, Fox Talbot Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
