Flesh of Stone.

Photographs by Michael Kenna. Foreword by Zoé Balthus. English translation by Blandine Longre and & Paul Stubbs. Text by Will Stone.

Noir Editions, France, 2023. English-French, 72 photographs,

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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 intuition was right. In the course of decades of travel around the world, Michael Kenna was not 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.

“Michael Kenna is drawn to the vestiges of humankind’s activity within the natural world, to places where human action has ceased, or to places where forgetting has established itself—the abandoned cemetery, the lonely avenues of a park in winter. But out of what he finds there Kenna does not produce images of extinction or finitude, of what has passed, but rather what lives on through a presence which has not been properly recorded, the hidden life behind objects, as explored in the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and Georges Rodenbach or the writings of Proust, until the moment Kenna’s lens endorses, emphasises that presence.”

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