Beyond Architecture brings together forty-five years of Michael Kenna's black-and-white photography to trace how an architectural eye shapes the way one photographer sees the entire world — built, natural, and everything between.
About This Book
Architectural photography is rarely this philosophically expansive. Kenna's lens moves between suspension bridge cables, nocturnal cityscapes, and factory silhouettes not as separate subjects but as variations on a single visual language — one built from light, shadow, composition, and perspective. Curated by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr, the book is structured around dialogues between images: pairings that reveal how Kenna applies the same rigorous formal thinking to a industrial tower as to a stand of trees. Printed in lush duotone throughout, this is a sustained argument for architectural seeing as a total approach to photography, not a genre within it.
Key Features
- 384 pages of lush duotone photographic plates drawn from four and a half decades of practice
- Curatorial work and insightful texts by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr
- Published by Prestel Publishing
What You'll Discover
- How Kenna's architectural training informs his treatment of natural landscapes, making the division between built and unbuilt environments effectively irrelevant
- The role of duotone printing in sustaining mood and tonal depth across widely different subject matter
- Meyer-Lohr's curatorial logic — how image dialogues reveal Kenna's technical and compositional consistency across radically different contexts
- Kenna's treatment of light and shadow as primary structural elements, whether photographing a nighttime cityscape or the haunting outline of an industrial structure
About the Author
Michael Kenna is regarded as one of the most accomplished photographers working today, with a practice spanning more than four decades and a body of work distinguished by its dedication to craft, long-exposure technique, and formal precision. Yvonne Meyer-Lohr contributes the curatorial framework and texts that give this volume its critical depth.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 384
- Dimensions: 245 x 298 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783791385822
- Publisher: Prestel Publishing
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Photographers, architects, and design practitioners interested in the formal relationships between architectural and landscape photography, as well as collectors drawn to fine art duotone monographs.