Maxwell MacKenzie

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Maxwell MacKenzie
Born
Fergus Falls, MN
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBennington College
OccupationPhotographer
StyleLandscape and aerial photography
Websitewww.maxwellmackenzie.com

Maxwell MacKenzie is an architectural and a fine arts photographer.

Contents

Three books have been published containing the landscape [1] and aerial [2] photography of MacKenzie.

Life and work

MacKenzie received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont in 1975, [3] with a dual major in architecture and photography. He was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, [3] [4] but has worked out of Washington, D.C. since the 1980s, and is married to art dealer Rebecca Cross. [5] [6] They currently live in Hillsboro, Virginia. [6] [7]

Architectural photographer

MacKenzie's commercial and architectural photographs [8] have been published in books, magazines and brochures worldwide, including over 500 covers.

Art photographer

MacKenzie’s landscape photographs [9] have been widely exhibited in galleries [10] [11] [4] and museums [12] [13] nationwide, and his art photographs are part of the permanent collections of the American Embassies in Bogota, Colombia, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, Conakry, Guinea, Moscow, Russia, Kathmandu, Nepal, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Lima, Peru. [4] [5]

As an artist, he has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, [5] the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, [5] and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. [4]

Henry Allen, the former Washington Post's art critic wrote about MacKenzie's landscapes as "the moment in question isn't just the moment the shutter clicked, but a moment that slipped by decades or even a century before, when something went wrong and a farm began to edge toward ruin." [3]

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References

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  2. "Super Fly: Aerial Photographer Maxwell Mackenzie, at the Fraser Gallery". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
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