Arno Rafael Minkkinen photography

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Kilberg , Vardø, Norway, 1990 Photography / Archival Pigmented Injet Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper, Luster Surface 53 7/10 × 42 3/10 in 136.5 × 107.5 cm

Bird of Väisälänsaari, Väisälänsaari, Finland, 2007 Photography / Archival Pigmented Injet Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper, Luster Surface 20 1/10 × 24 in 51 × 61 cm Edition 6/25

Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, 2002 Photography / Archival Pigmented Injet Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper, Luster Surface 23 2/5 × 27 3/5 in 59.5 × 70 cm

Mouth of the River, Fosters Pond, 2014 Photography / Archival Pigmented Injet Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper, Luster Surface 20 1/10 × 24 in 51 × 61 cm Edition 1/25

Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born Helsinki, 1945) is a Finnish photographer who works in the United States.

Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, the Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris France, the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne Switzerland, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, the Finnish Museum of Photography, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography among many others.

Seven solo monographs on his work have been published: Frostbite (1978), Waterline (1994, winner of the 25th Rencontres d’Arles Book Prize), Body Land (1999), SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 35 Years of Photographs (2005), Homework: The Finnish Photographs (2008), Swimming in the Air (2009), and Balanced Equation (2010). The retrospective survey SAGA premiered at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, in 2005. The 120-print retrospective toured to Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, China, and Canada.

Minkkinen was conferred the First Class Order of the Lion of Finland Medal of knighthood by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006...read more (Wikipedia)

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