LOIS CONNER
IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDA CONNOR
Friday, January 20, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Online via Zoom
Tickets: $10
* Students please email your student card to lucien@photoalliance.org for FREE access to this event.
Join us for our launch of the Spring 2023 Lecture Series with two remarkable landscape photographers! Conner and Connor (or Lois and Linda!) have both invested decades in wide-ranging photographic practices rooted in the landscape tradition combined with a global perspective. Each has considered in-depth the way photography might render a sense of time and place, and have engaged deeply with history—geologically, culturally and photographically speaking—in their work.
Lois Conner, speaking from New York, will give a slideshow presentation of her work, followed by a conversation with Linda Connor in California.
All photos © Lois Conner
About Lois Conner
Lois Conner is known for her large-scale panoramic photographs relating to a global landscape. Her pictures are characterized by their narrative sweep, a sense of place, and their implicit attention to history and culture. Many of her projects have an arc of decades, including her work in New York, in China, on the Navajo Reservation, and in the American West. Carrying her 7x17in, 8x10in and 11x14in cameras by bicycle, boat, cart, or thrown over her shoulder, she navigates the land slowly. Her work has been featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. Conner has been teaching photography for over thirty-five years, including over a decade at the Yale University School of Art, where she earned her MFA in photography. She is the author of numerous books and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. Her solo exhibition Flat Earth appeared at Penumbra Foundation in 2021.
All photos © Linda Connor
About Linda Connor
Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography and has traveled extensively to produce her work to places such as India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, and Southeast Asia. Connor received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her Masters from the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago. In 1969 she joined the photography faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute where she has taught for 53 years. A recipient of, among other awards, the National Endowment for the Arts grant (1994, 1988, 1976), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979) and the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts (2001-02), Connor was recognized with the Society of Photographic Education’s Honored Educator Award in 2005. Connor is the founder of the nonprofit, PhotoAlliance. She is represented by the Haines Gallery, San Francisco and has published the monographs Odyssey, 2008, with Chronicle Books, San Francisco, and Constellations and Linda’s Ornaments, with Datz Press, Korea, 2021.
Due to the “tripledemic” as well as a desire to engage our wonderful audience in the Bay Area and beyond, PhotoAlliance has decided to make our January program virtual. Our in-person programming returns at the Randall Museum, San Francisco, in February, 2023.
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