- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Ram Pubns & Dist; 2 edition (June 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0963078534
- ISBN-13: 978-0963078537
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 25.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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The gardens of Andre Le Ntre shore up the essential configurations of seventeenth-century French aesthetics. Michael Kenna approaches these landscapes with fresh insight that carries the viewer into an elegant world of pure light, form, and line, while following the aesthetic discipline of Le Ntre's gardens. From the legendary Versailles to the newly added Fountainebleu, Kenna explores the ten most important gardens credited to the brilliance of Andre Le Ntre.
This long awaited rerelease of Michael Kenna's, Le Ntre's Gardens has finally arrived, now featuring an additional twenty images in addition to the existing forty meticulously printed quadratone plates. A true visual feast for both lovers of the formal garden and connoisseurs of the classic photograph. Text by professor and garden historian Eric T. Haskell.
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This review is from: Le Notre's Gardens (Hardcover)
Exceptional photographs of well-known places. An gardnerer's heaven, no mole-hills even.
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Beautifully elusive garden images,
By Mediahound (SF Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Le Notre's Gardens (Hardcover)
While the text essays in this book are a bit dry, the photographic reproductions are of top notch quality. Kenna's photographs are beautifully elusive, sometimes printed quite dark, yet remain salient throughout. I found myself wondering how the images looked on the contact sheets, straight, with no darkroom manipulations. This book serves as a great example of what you can do in the darkroom to bring out a more poignant image than you actually shot at the location. It should be required for anyone who works with black and white photography in the darkroom; not because you will gleen any certain tips or techiques but because you will study the final results and perhaps wonder how they were achieved.As a photographer, this book will remain in my photo book collection and it is Kenna's strongest work to date.
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MAGNIFICENT MAGIC,
By MOVIE MAVEN (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Le Notre's Gardens (Hardcover)
I am very lucky indeed to have been able to see many of Michael Kenna's photographs at live exhibitions, both in Washington, D.C. and in New York City. Any art book is a "poor" substitution for the real thing, but there are some books that can give you true, beautiful examples of specific art works that then, hopefully, can someday be seen live. Kenna is a British photographer, in his 50's, who now lives in San Francisco....and seems to concentrate, in large part, on landscapes as his subjects. His images in this book are of the gardens created by Andre Le Notre, "the most important garden designer of the court of Louis XIV." In approximately 6o plates on 80 pages, we are taken to 10 different locations in France including the Tuileries in Paris and Versailles and Fontainebleau. The photographs are nothing short of breathtaking, obviously taken at dawn or dusk when the natural light is almost unreal. These images evoke mysterious, art movie settings---one almost expects a stranger to appear from one of the designed paths or pools or from behind one of the symmetrical trees or shrubs. All of it: the photographs, the accompanying essay, the way the book is put together with obvious care and love is magnificent magic.
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