Works : Works

A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn, one of the leading figures in contemporary art photography

Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, Mona Kuhn has explored humanity’s longing for spiritual interconnectivity. She is renowned for developing close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. Kuhn employs a range of playful v...

A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn, one of the leading figures in contemporary art photography

Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, Mona Kuhn has explored humanity’s longing for spiritual interconnectivity. She is renowned for developing close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. Kuhn employs a range of playful visual strategies that reveal glimpses into the psyche as it is expressed through the human form, ultimately reinterpreting the nude in the canon of contemporary art.

Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has made her one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers, and her work is in private and public collections around the

world. Mona Kuhn: Works, the artist’s first retrospective, features images from throughout her career, many of them previously unseen, accompanied by perceptive texts by Rebecca Morse, Chris Littlewood, Darius Himes and Simon Baker. An interview with Elizabeth Avedon provides insights into Kuhn’s creative process and the ways in which she works with her subjects and locations, and achieves the visual signature of her imagery. Published to coincide with a travelling international exhibition, opening at Fotografiska in New York, this book will be an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the human form in contemporary art.

Mona Kuhn (b. 1969, Brazil) has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1989 and is currently an independent scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Her work is included in major institutions around the world.

Rebecca Morse is the Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA.

Elizabeth Avedon is a photography book and exhibition designer, curator and writer.

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Mona Kuhn (b. 1969, Brazil) has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1989 and is currently an independent scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Her work is included in major institutions around the world.

Rebecca Morse is the Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA.

Elizabeth Avedon is a photography book and exhibition designer, curator and writer.

Chris Littlewood is an independent photography curator and writer.

Darius Himes is international head of the photographs department at Christie’s.

Simon Baker is then Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris.