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| Linda Connor, Morning Light, Nako, Spiti, India, 1994, Contact print on Printing Out Paper - Gold Toned, 8x10″, $3500 |
Linda Connor is what most would consider to be well-traveled. She and her 8x10″ view camera have trekked through the sloping foothills of the Himalayas, across the Andes, along the Ganges River and across the deserts of the Southwestern United States. Along the way, she has photographed the people and the places that have inspired joy, poetry or reverence, she has spent time in astronomical archives making contact print after contact print of our first glimpses of outer space, and she has inspired many students throughout her career as an educator at the San Francisco Art Institute.
We are thrilled to announce the installation of a few of Linda Connor's images in our physical gallery space. Her importance as an artist and educator cannot be overstated, however Linda prefers to align herself with the identity of a "visualist". As the artist says, "...the way that images convey their forms and meanings is my most fluent language — both in how they speak to me and how I wish their presence to convey to others." This is to say that Linda Connor's pictures speak to her and to us, her audience (which is to be expected in photography), but also to each other.
The prints that have taken up residence on the photo-eye Gallery wall are all included in Linda Connor's newest book, Constellations, which manages to present a collection of images that span both regions and years. Despite the physical distance that separates the plates included in the book, they manage to converse amongst themselves. Flipping through the book puts you in the middle of an ongoing dialogue between the present and the past; between what is happening in front of the artist, and what has happened light years ago.
View a selection of prints from this work below, and make sure to stop into the gallery to see the beautiful, unique warmth of Linda Connor's gold-toned images in person!
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| Linda Connor, December 21, 1989 from the Lick Observatory Archive, Contact print on Printing Out Paper - Gold Toned, 7x5″, $3500 |
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| Linda Connor, Cloud Shadow, Ladakh, India, 1988, Archival pigment print, 22x28″, $3500 |
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| Linda Connor, Orion Nebula, January 21, 1938 from the Lick Observatory Archive, Contact print on Printing Out Paper - Gold Toned, 7x5″, $3500 |
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| Linda Connor, Earth and Sky III, Queensland, Australia, 1997, Contact print on Printing Out Paper - Gold Toned, 8x10″, $3500 |
>> View Constellations in the photo-eye Bookstore here <<
>> Learn more about Linda Connor! <<
For more information, and to purchase prints or books by Linda Connor, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202