Second Edition 1999 revised and expanded. This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover book published by RAM Publications with a dust jacket and a First Edition of 1997 and a Second Edition 1999 revised and expanded. Bound by Roswell Bookbinding in Brillianta Book Club. Michael Kenna's stunning landscapes, dreamworks of light and shadow, carry the viewer into the elegant world of French 16th-century garden designer Andre Le Notre, the genius behind the garden at Versailles. This second edition includes the original 40 quadratone plates plus an additional 20 images. A visual feast for the lover of both photography and the formal garden. The author, Eric T. Haskell is Professor of French Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Scripps College where he is also Director of the Clark Humanities Museum. He received his Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California, Irvine. He also studied Art History and Architecture in the graduate program at UCI and at the École du Louvre in Paris. Le Nôtre's Gardens, accompanied an exhibition he curated at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

Le Notre's Gardens

Arts & Photography

Kenna, Michael

Haskell, Eric T.

Individual Artists

Ram Pubns & Dist

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth, with dust jacket, in a cloth slipcase. Introduction by Bill Jay (on the subject of Easter Island and the speculation surrounding its history). 72 pp. with 40 duotone plates beautifully printed onmatte art paper. 13 x 12 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 numbered hardbound copies. Out of print (sold out upon publication). From the publisher: "Situated in the South Pacific, Easter Island is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest population centers, making it one of the most isolated places on earth. Best known for the giant stone monoliths, or Moai, dotting its coastline, the island was named by Admiral Roggeveen, who chanced upon the triangle of volcanic rock on Easter Sunday in the year 1772. Michael Kenna has photographed Easter Island over a period of two years, creating a powerful new body of work which pays homage to the beauty of the island and the continuing mystery of its past."

Easter Island

Photography & Video

Nazraeli Pr

Michael Kenna's photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in Kenna's important monograph, Japan, are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and photograph. During the past several years, as this project began to take shape, Kenna's trips became more frequent and intense. The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone, Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase. Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa.

MICHAEL KENNA JAPAN

NAZRAELI

Michael Kenna: A twenty year retrospective / [introduction Peter C. Bunnel]

Michael Kenna first began photographing the Ratcliffe power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published in a first edition of 3,000 copies. Introduction by Jeremy Reed.

Ratcliffe Power Station

REED, Jeremy

Nazraeli Press

The small tidal island of Mont St Michel is situated just off the Normandy coast, connected to the mainland by a single causeway. Its abbey rises like a mirage, high above the sea, on this craggy, rocky perch. It is a spectacular sight, and one that Kenna has been drawn to many times over the years. By day, the island - a popular tourist destination - is alive with cars, buses, people, noise. It can seem a garish place. But at night, it becomes as originally intended: a place for peace, for prayer, for quiet contemplation. It is that gentler face of Mont St Michel that Kenna wanted to photograph and, after the crowds have gone home, he has been able to do so. Alone, he has climbed the bell tower, explored the crypts and chapels, and ambled along the silent lanes of the island. He has watched, totally undisturbed, as the light changed, shadows came and went, and clouds subtley floated this way and that. While his camera shutter was open for long, long exposures, Kenna cherished the silence, lost in his own private thoughts. He sees these photographs as a personal record of this time of solitary exploration; it is a record we are privileged to share. Kenna has dedicated this book to his father and, in a deeply affecting introduction, he describes the connection he feels between this solid, calm, inspirational place and his much-loved parent.

Mont St. Michel

Huangshan is the name given to a whole range of mountains in Anhui province in eastern China. Also called Yellow mountain, the range is particularly known for its uniquely-shaped granite peaks, ubiquitous pine trees that literally grow out of the rock faces, and the ever changing configurations of flowing clouds as seen from above. Huangshan has been a source of inspiration and a muse for Chinese painters and poets throughout history. It continues to inspire artists today, including Michael Kenna. These forty-six photographs, which Kenna made over a period of three years, capture both the sublimity and grandeur of these peaks, and quietly reflect on our human interaction with nature. Kenna has written a brief introduction which describes some of his experiences on Huangshan. Arguably the most influential photographer of his generation, Michael Kenna is the subject of over 35 monographs. Beautifully printed in our special Daido black ink on uncoated art paper, this second printing of Huangshan is limited to 2,000 casebound copies.

Huangshan (English and Chinese Edition)

Brand new, 1st printing limited to 3000 slipcased copies. Published in 2013

Michael Kenna Shinan /anglais

Forms of Japan Michael Kenna

Meyer-Lohr, Yvonne

Prestel-Verlag

This beautiful book presents a meditative, arresting, and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Japan, made over almost 30 years by the internationally renowned photographer Michael Kenna. A rocky coast along the sea of Japan; an immense plain of rice fields in the snow; Mount Fuji towering over misty wooded hills; silent temples devoid of people but brimming with Buddhist deities; a Torii gate mysteriously emerging from moving clouds and water—these are a few images from this remarkable collection of photographs by Michael Kenna, whose black-and-white work is highly renowned. Forms of Japan, brilliantly designed by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr, is organized into chapters simply titled, "Sea," "Land," "Trees," "Spirit," and "Sky." The quietly evocative photographs, often paired with classic haiku poems of Basho, Buson, Issa, and others, provide a contemplative portrait of a country better known for its energy and industry. Gorgeously reproduced to convey the enormous subtleties that exist in Michael Kenna’s traditional black-and-white silver prints, the photographs in this book include both well-known and previously unpublished images from all corners of Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Okinawa, and Shikoku.

Michael Kenna: Forms of Japan

Prestel

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