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Saga: The Journey of
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Photographs 1970-2005 |
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As a result of the technical quality of the Polaroid instant media, Minkkinen stopped using 35mm and switched to a 4x5-inch camera using Polaroid Type 55 P/N black-and-white film. The results are rewarding on a number of levels, and minimize some of the risk. He now knows if he has the picture set up the way he wants it or not. He can look at the negative and envision the beautiful prints he'll make with their long grey scale, great detail and fine grain. |
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Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born in Finland and moved to the United States at a young age. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen’s self-portrait images are in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the Polaroid Collections among many others. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and lives in Andover, MA. |
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The one question people always ask: "Why are you naked in all your pictures?" Naked hands, naked feet ... I want to depict ... the timelessness of our bodies amidst the timelessness of nature. Through our nakedness we remain, like the rocks and trees, ageless by our skin. I hug the pine tree with the same power that the pine tree hugs me." |
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