page_title: Arno Rafael Minkkinen
hierarchical_section_title: Arno Rafael Minkkinen
caption_attribution_description: Arno Rafael Minkkinen at the SPE (Society for Photographic Education) in Atlanta, GA.
context_page_description: Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer who works in the United States.
  Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Finnish Museum of Photography.
  Seven solo monographs on his work have been published: Frostbite, Waterline, Body Land, SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 35 Years of Photographs, Homework: The Finnish Photographs, Swimming in the Air, and Balanced Equation. The retrospective survey SAGA premiered at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, in 2005. The 120-print retrospective toured to Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, China, and Canada.
  Minkkinen was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland of the first class by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006.
context_section_description: Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born 1945) is a Finnish-American photographer who works in the United States.
  Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Finnish Museum of Photography.
  Seven solo monographs on his work have been published: Frostbite (1978), Waterline (1994, winner of the 25th Rencontres d'Arles Book Prize), Body Land (1999), SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 35 Years of Photographs (2005), Homework: The Finnish Photographs (2008), Swimming in the Air (2009), and Balanced Equation (2010). The retrospective survey SAGA premiered at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, in 2005. The 120-print retrospective toured to Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, China, and Canada.
  Minkkinen was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland of the first class by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006.
caption: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 2011
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