Arno Rafael Minkkinen Profile
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer. He was born in Finland, Helski in the year 1945 and thereafter migrated to the United States in the year 1951. He is a graduate of Wagner College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Minkkinen started taking self-portraits in 1971 as he worked as an advertising copywriter on Madison Avenue in New York. In 1974 he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree when studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Rhode Island School of Design. In the last four decades Minkkinen has been a curator, teacher and writer while at the same time continui8ng with his devotion to photographic research and energies to the self-portrait which …show more content…
His work can be found in the collections of Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography among many others. There are seven solo monographs on his work that have been published (Minkkinen, & Coleman, 2006).
Teaching activities
Currently Minkkinen is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Minkkinen also serves as Docent at the University of Art & Design Helsinki and graduate faculty at Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. Earlier in his teaching career he had served as Assistant Professor at MIT and Visiting Artist at Philadelphia College of Art and the Lahti Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland (Garner, 2003).
Recent work
Since 2009, Minkkinen has developed a growing interest in feature filmmaking and screenwriting. In 2010, he received a first round of support from the Finnish Film Foundation for a screenplay he had written and will be directing. Minkkinen was conferred the First Class Order of the Lion of Finland Medal of knighthood by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006 (Garner, …show more content…
His works appears when curled on a sandy beach, at other times dangling offs the edge of a cliff and he is always naked as the day he was born. The sites of the photos change constantly but Minkkinen often becomes part of the landscape thus connecting nature and body in the weirdest ways. Minkkinen believes that his affinity for nature and to be more specific water reflects his finish roots. In all his photos he does not use color and he believes that nine seconds are what it takes to get a good image (Robert, 2014).
One of his works below taken in Stranda, Norway—he balances on a tree so that his leg and thigh form a branch extending from the trunk. In this image he says “there is no age to the picture when it is just the landscape and the body”. “They could be reality from 1305 because of the nudity (Robert,
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer. He was born in Finland, Helski in the year 1945 and thereafter migrated to the United States in the year 1951. He is a graduate of Wagner College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Minkkinen started taking self-portraits in 1971 as he worked as an advertising copywriter on Madison Avenue in New York. In 1974 he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree when studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Rhode Island School of Design. In the last four decades Minkkinen has been a curator, teacher and writer while at the same time continui8ng with his devotion to photographic research and energies to the self-portrait which …show more content…
His work can be found in the collections of Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography among many others. There are seven solo monographs on his work that have been published (Minkkinen, & Coleman, 2006).
Teaching activities
Currently Minkkinen is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Minkkinen also serves as Docent at the University of Art & Design Helsinki and graduate faculty at Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. Earlier in his teaching career he had served as Assistant Professor at MIT and Visiting Artist at Philadelphia College of Art and the Lahti Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland (Garner, 2003).
Recent work
Since 2009, Minkkinen has developed a growing interest in feature filmmaking and screenwriting. In 2010, he received a first round of support from the Finnish Film Foundation for a screenplay he had written and will be directing. Minkkinen was conferred the First Class Order of the Lion of Finland Medal of knighthood by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006 (Garner, …show more content…
His works appears when curled on a sandy beach, at other times dangling offs the edge of a cliff and he is always naked as the day he was born. The sites of the photos change constantly but Minkkinen often becomes part of the landscape thus connecting nature and body in the weirdest ways. Minkkinen believes that his affinity for nature and to be more specific water reflects his finish roots. In all his photos he does not use color and he believes that nine seconds are what it takes to get a good image (Robert, 2014).
One of his works below taken in Stranda, Norway—he balances on a tree so that his leg and thigh form a branch extending from the trunk. In this image he says “there is no age to the picture when it is just the landscape and the body”. “They could be reality from 1305 because of the nudity (Robert,