Michael Kenna

A limited edition of Mont-Saint-Michel, signed and numbered by Michael Kenna.

• Michael Kenna (English).
• Henry Adams (American). 
• Massachusetts: 21st Editions, 2007.
• Limited to 60 numbered copies of which this is #17.
• Signed and numbered by Michel Kenna, John Wood, Lance Speer, and the publisher, Steven Albahari on the limitation page.
• Fourteen signed hand printed platinum prints plus one signed free-standing platinum print.
• Housed in the original silk cloth clamshell slipcase.

This copy #17, was presented to Lance Speer (21st Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing and writer of the original essay contained in the book entitled “Memory as Muse: Michael Kenna at Mont-Saint-Michel”) upon completion of the project. Included is a letter of provenance by Speer. The entire edition sold out, sight unseen, in only fourteen days.

21st Editions was awarded the prestigious Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award Silver Medal in 2008 for "Best Book Arts Craftsmanship" for its publication Mont-Saint-Michel.

For years Michael Kenna has been recognized as one of the world's leading photographers, an artist with so great a grasp of place that his way of seeing Stonehenge, Versailles, Easter Island, Hokkaido, and elsewhere has become "our" way of seeing them. Kenna has now turned his eye to Mont-Saint-Michel where light dawns through graceful arches, cascades down stairways and roadways, wraps itself around 900 year old Gothic architecture in a delicate embrace as it seeps into otherwise impermeable stone to illuminate it from within. Kenna has indeed created the photographic portrait of the island and its architecture, a body of work which rivals and complements Henry Adams' classic Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, the famed book which is the verbal portrait of the Mount. This handmade, limited edition unites Adams’ words with Kenna’s images and contains a short introduction by John Wood and a scholarly essay by Lance Speer.