The intuition was right. In the course of decades of travel around the world, Michael Kenna was not been able to resist the statuary and its splendid human representations he had come across in gardens, parks, places of worship and memory. More than seventy analogue masterpieces were thus brought to light to compose FLESH of STONE.
Slip, Hardcover
Publisher: Nior-Editions.
FLESH of STONE was born out of the encounter, some ten years ago, between the celebrated English photographer Michael Kenna and the French author and art critic Zoé Balthus. The writer invited the great artist to dig into his archives in search of the human figure, whose fleeting presence she had sometimes perceived in some of his minimalist black & white landscapes, to which he owes his international fame.
“The photographs gathered in this book, singular in Kenna’s oeuvre and for the most part previously unpublished, converse together and summon the absent one in a resolutely physical, carnal, and emotional manner. The artist interprets wonderfully the paths of human destiny, grasping its essence with a sumptuously mastered black & white intensity.”
Zoé Balthus
$140.00
