Background
Linda Connor was born on November 18, 1944 in New York, United States.
(Prehistoric Native-American rock carvings as seen through...)
Prehistoric Native-American rock carvings as seen through the lenses of five contemporary photographers.
https://www.amazon.com/Marks-Place-Contemporary-Responses-Rock/dp/0826309755
1988
(This career-spanning retrospective collects Connor's haun...)
This career-spanning retrospective collects Connor's haunting photos, including her renowned prints from century-old glass-plate astronomical negatives from Lick Observatory, contextualized by an unprecedented three-way conversation between Linda and two modern luminaries, Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin.
https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Photographs-Linda-Connor/dp/0811865010
2008
Linda Connor was born on November 18, 1944 in New York, United States.
Linda Connor began working in photography at 17, exploring her interest in spiritualism. Her early photographic influences include Walker Evans, Emmet Gowin, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron and Frederick Sommer.
She attended the Rhode Island School of Design between 1963-1967 where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. She later attended the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology between the years of 1967-1969, where she received her Master of Fine Arts.
In 1969, Linda Connor began teaching at San Francisco Art Institute, instructing graduates and undergraduates for over 40 years. Her first group exhibition was Vision and Expression at George Eastman House, in 1968 in Rochester. In the entirety of her career she has received 11 awards, held over 40 solo exhibitions, and was featured in over 20 group exhibitions. These awards include a Guggenheim and three National Endowment for the Arts grants.
(This career-spanning retrospective collects Connor's haun...)
2008(Prehistoric Native-American rock carvings as seen through...)
1988(Features a series of photographs of the churches of Cappo...)
2007Like other women photographers working within the subject matter, Linda Connor contends that men have traditionally photographed landscapes. She offers instead a "theory of women's landscape imagery, one that posits a more intimate, emotional response to Nature because women somehow have more affinity with it." In a public lecture, Linda Connor refers to photographer Gretchen Garner's thesis, "Reclaiming Paradise," she stated that male landscape photographers aim to 'conquer' the land with their photographs. Linda Connor stated “is it too farfetched... to link man's passion for new lands, high places, the challenges of nature, landscape photography with pissing? This is territorial claiming and marking at its most basic. And what better place to piss off of than the top of a mountain-marking a vista."Although Connor's view has been criticized as "essentialist," she is not alone in believing that her landscapes convey a symbiotic relationship with nature.