Silver gelatin prints are matted and mounted on archival 16 x 20 inch mountboard and framed in a 0.6 inch hand-painted black oak moulding behind museum glass.
Michael Kenna signs and editions each mountboard below the print and includes the year the photograph was made after his signature.
On the reverse of each 16x20 inch mountboard Kenna includes the photograph’s title, the year the photograph was made, the year the print was made, the edition number, the edition size and artist signature.
Michael Kenna
16x20” Archival Mounted Print
Signed by Michael Kenna
Limited Edition of 25 SOLD OUT
Artist Proof #1 of 3
GBP £15,305
Further images
"Red Crown Cranes are symbolically important to the Japanese soul. They are featured on the Japanese 1000 yen currency note and in the logo for Japanese Airlines. In the North of Japan, on the island of Hokkaido, there are various preserves and sanctuaries where cranes are fed. Their nesting grounds are also close by where they can propagate in safety. I have had opportunities to visit many of these sanctuaries and photograph. I was extremely fortunate with this particular image of a single crane feeding. I photographed from a very low angle to eliminate foreground and background details. The composition is as minimal as I could make it, like Haiku poetry. Even though the negative was made in 2005, I only printed the image very recently while working on a book of my bird images, Oiseaux - Michael Kenna, which was published by Xavier Barral, France in 2019.” Michael Kenna 2020
Provenance
Negative 2005 Print 2019