中文简介：

本书为配合在法国卢瓦尔河畔肖蒙庄园举办的同名展览出版，收集了英国摄影师Michael Kenna（生于1954年）拍摄一系列令人惊叹的树木照片。40多年来，Kenna一直带着他的相机在世界各地旅行，他通过在清晨和深夜工作，使用极长的曝光时间（通常持续10小时）来呈现树木和森林的不朽。这些田园诗般的图像仅以黑白拍摄，脱离了季节和地理背景，强调了所拍摄标本的多样性和多元性。在极少数情况下，人类文明的存在在他的作品中窥见一斑，例如一些路段、建筑、栅栏和桩子，更令人惊讶的是，拖鞋构成了人类存在的**痕迹。这种环境的扁平化和主题的简化使我们能够重新想象传统上与树木相关的颜色，关注树枝与光线之间产生的奇妙的氛围效果，这是Kenna摄影的独特之处。

英文简介：

Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire in France, this catalog gathers a stunning selection of photographs of trees by English-born, Seattle-based photographer Michael Kenna (born 1954). For over 40 years, Kenna has been traveling around the world with his camera immortalizing trees and forests in his signature ethereal lighting, which he achieves by working in the early morning and late-night hours, and through his use of extremely long exposure times, often lasting up to 10 hours. Captured exclusively in black and white, these idyllic images are divorced from both seasonal and geographical context, emphasizing the diversity and plurality of the photographed specimens. On rare occasions, the existence of human civilizations peeks through in his work: some road sections, buildings, fences and stakes or, more surprisingly, slippers, constitute the only traces of human presence. This flattening of setting and simplification of subject allows us to reimagine the colors that are traditionally associated with trees and focus on the interaction between the opaque, delicate black of their branches and the fleecy light that filters through them, generating the wonderful atmospheric effect so distinctive to Kenna's photography.