Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee originally commissioned photographer
to create a modern portrait of Lake Michigan.
He decided to drive around the lake, taking portraits of the water and of the people along the shoreline.
What emerged, as Mary Louise Schumacher, art and architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says, was a
"A wonderfully perceptive interrogation of landscape, portraiture, cartography, and place."
What emerged, as Mary Louise Schumacher, art and architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says, was a
"A wonderfully perceptive interrogation of landscape, portraiture, cartography, and place."
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Kevin J. Miyazaki at the Perimeter installation at the Haggerty Museum |
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A wall of human portraits faced a wall of lake portraits |
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Celebrating the opening of Perimeter with Miyazaki |
| I was honored to be a subject of this project and to attend opening night.
The project has now evolved into a lovely selection of these portraits in book form published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
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The book |
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Many shots of Lake Michigan are included |
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Amy Lukas and Mary Catterlin -- who traversed the perimeter of the lake in a dugout canoe that they made -- are featured |
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Kids at Lake Michigan |
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Workers on the Mackinac Bridge |
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Police chief and park ranger |
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My portrait and quote about Lake Michigan |
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The vast waters of Lake Michigan |
Heartfelt congratulations to Kevin on this lovely book. For more information and to order a signed copy of your own, click HERE.
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