Rhondal McKinney
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| Born | August 20, 1948 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Organization | Rural Documentary Collection |
Rhondal Lee McKinney (born August 20, 1948) is an American photographer.
Early life and education
He grew up in a small town in Southern Illinois, the son of a barber and a hairdresser. Following a degree in mathematics at the University of Illinois, he spent time as a railroad brakeman, a tutor and a self-taught freelance photographer. He received a Master of Fine Arts in photography at the University of Illinois (1981), studying with Art Sinsabaugh and Luther Smith. He ultimately became a professor of photography at Illinois State University, where he founded the Rural Documentary Collection.
Between degrees McKinney taught himself photography and learned wet-process developing and printing.
Career
Long a student of the Midwestern landscape and the beauty, complexity and subtle power of land that has become altered by agriculture, McKinney typically used a large format camera, creating contact prints of great sharpness and clarity.
McKinney's work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art[1] and the Museum of Modern Art[2] (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago,[3] the Museum of Fine arts (Boston),[4] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art[5] (Fort Worth) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).[6]
He has curated shows at the Art Institute of Chicago (Road and Roadside: American Photographs 1930-1986; An Open Land: Photographs of the Midwest, 1852-1982) as well as reprinting and curating the glass plate negatives of early 20th century home extension agent and self-taught photographer Clara Bryan (Clara Bryan: Home Bureau Photographs 1918-1926[7]).
Since his retirement he continues his photography, driving the backroads of Illinois.
Further reading
- Rhondal McKinney, Midwest Horizons, Eye of Photography, December, 2018.
- An Open Land: Photographs of The Midwest, 1852-1982, curated by the Open Lands Project in Association with the Art Institute of Chicago. Rhondal McKinney, editor.
- Rhondal McKinney: Midwestern Moods, Aperture, Summer 1983
References
- ↑ McKinney, Rhondal (1979). "Landscape at Dusk/Dawn with Farm Houses in Distance at the Horizon, and Land Completely Darkened". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ↑ "Rhondal McKinney". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ↑ https://www.artic.edu/artists/35714/rhondal-mckinney
- ↑ https://www.mfa.org/annual-report-2011/donorsArt.html
- ↑ https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/rhondal-mckinney
- ↑ "McKinney, Rhondal". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ↑ https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/1aa/1aa114.htm
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