Frank Kenny Research Paper

Lastly, meet #photographer Frank Kenny, who we’re also featuring today at our grand celebration in #Prescott's Old Firehouse Plaza, Suite #5 at 5 p.m.

Kenny’s lifelong love for photography began when he first picked up his mother’s Kodak Instamatic camera. “I had never used one before,” Kenny said. Yet his curiosity turned into fascination with an eagerness to learn more. He studied the greats — Ansel Adams, Minor White, among others — but Kenny felt the most connected to White’s work. “[His influence] was really important,” Kenny said. “He did a lot of abstract stuff, and I saw the connection right away.”

Years of experimentation and discovery later, his artistic eye sharpened, revealing the blink of a multi-dimensional universe. “I was able to train my eye,” Kenny said. “The picture came along…Everybody went nuts.”
At the Yuba River in Sacramento, California, he captured glistening rock layers alongside the stark, atrophied cracks of their surfaces. In other shots, rippling water depicted mystical dimensions of shifting colors and lights. “I get the urge to take pictures. I figure out an area to go,” Kenny said. “It’s a feeling, an intuition to just go there. I spend a little time looking and then I start taking the