Linda Connor (born in New York, November 18, 1944)[1] is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California.
[3] She has photographed in a multitude of countries throughout her career including, but not limited to, India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, and Nepal.
Connor was a professor for the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she had taught since 1969.
Her early photographic influences include Walker Evans, Emmet Gowin, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron and Frederick Sommer.
[2] In 1969, Connor began teaching at San Francisco Art Institute, instructing graduates and undergraduates for over 40 years.
[1][7] One of Connor's most notable images include a photograph of a ceremonial cloth carefully wrapped around a tree trunk in Bali, petroglyphs hidden in the cliff dwellings of Arizona, star trails in Mexico, and votive candles arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres.
In her early work, Connor used an 8×10 inch Century View camera with a soft focus lens as a mechanism to imbue her photographs with a sense of abstraction.
[9] In India and Nepal, she found sacred landscapes with ritual magic that she could photograph with a sharp lens and still achieve a sense of timelessness.
[11] A 1996 The New Yorker essay asserted that the photos "combine generalized forms, like shadows and silhouettes, with richly compelling detail.
"[12] Connor captures man-made elements in natural environments in order to evoke spiritualism, "addressing quite literally the issue of how people have made their mark upon the landscape.
[17] The exhibitions toured across art museums in the US from 2008 – 2011 with a monograph containing "transcripts of conversations between Connor, Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin.
"[18] These retrospectives make clear that Connor's primary interest has been exploring places "steeped in the passage of time and resonant with spirituality.”[19] Both works primarily consist of landscape photography in relation to culture and to spiritualism,[16] using an 8x10 inch view camera and printed on slow contact print paper.
[21] Connor stated “is it too farfetched... to link man's passion for new lands, high places, the challenges of nature, landscape photography with pissing?
"[21] Although Connor's view has been criticized as "essentialist,"[22] she is not alone in believing that her landscapes convey a symbiotic relationship with nature.
2017 LINDA CONNOR – Photographs, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA[25] 2017 Linda Connor: Gravity, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL[26][27] 2013 Linda Connor: From Two Worlds, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA[28] 2013 Linda Connor: Continuum, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA[29] 2012 Linda Connor, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 2012 From Two Worlds, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA[30] 2011 Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia 2011 Linda Connor: New Direction, Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2010 Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA 2010 Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI[19] 2010 Linda Connor, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 2010 Linda Connor: New Work, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR 2009 Odyssey: the photographs of Linda Connor, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 2009 Odyssey: the photographs of Linda Connor, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ[31] 2009 Linda Connor, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2009 Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL 2008 Himalayas, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 Linda Connor Photographs, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA 2007 Olson House Photographs, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 2007 Linda Connor, Department of Design Gallery, Mariposa Hall, Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA 2006 Linda Connor Photographs, Sun Valley Art Museum, Ketchum, ID 2005 A Clear Vision” by Linda Connor, The Creative Center for Photography Freestyle, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Linda Connor: Starfields & Constellations, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Linda Connor: Continuum, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Time, Place, Sequences, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA 2003 Linda Connor: Photographs, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo Japan 2001 Linda Connor, Glen Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY 2001 The Heavens, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001 Recent Photographs, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Towards Light, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Linda Connor, Life Work Award, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA 1997 Linda Connor, PARTS Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1997 Linda Connor, Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA 1996 Linda Connor – Diptychs, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1994 Earthly Constellations, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. 1993 Earthly Constellations, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA 1992 Harry Callahan & Linda Connor, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC 1992 Earthly Constellations, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1990 Spiritual Journey, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 1988 Linda Connor, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1988 Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan 1986 Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California 1982 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1973 Light Gallery, New York City, N.Y.[1] 2023 The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX 2018 Speak to the Stones, and the Stars Answer, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA[32][33] 2017 Shadowland: Photographs from the Collection, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO[34] 2017 Pop- Up, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA[35] 2017 Maija Fiebig, Thuy-Van Vu and Linda Connor, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA[36] 2017 The Poetry of Place, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH[37] 2017 The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH[38] 2016 LUX: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY[39][40] 2015 Regarding Trees: Vintage and Contemporary Selections, Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA[41][42] 2015 The Mapmaker's Dream, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA[43][44] 2015 DWELL, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA[45][46] 2014 Local Treasures: Bay Area Photography, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA[47] 2014 Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA[48] 2012 SOLAR, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 When Heaven Meets Earth, Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 2012 Tracing Light, Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 2012 Growth & Gravity: Linda Connor & Yoshitomo Saito, Goodwin Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO 2012 Consilience: Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art & Science, International Center of Photography, New York, NY 2000 Three Landscape Photographers, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1994 Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 1994 Selections from the Permanent Collection: Image and Text, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1993 Mexico through Foreign Eyes, International Center for Photography, New York 1991 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 1990 Photographs by American Women Artists, California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA 1988 Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1986 Artist in Mid-Career, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1985 American Images, Photography 1945–80, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England 1982 The Contact Print, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA 1979 American Photography in the '70, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1977 Mirrors and Windows – American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY 1968 Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY[1] Artists We’ve Known : Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection.
Lodima Press / Michael A. Smith, 2008 ISBN 9781888899276 The Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt.
Jeffrey Hoone, Deborah Willis, Carole Kismaric, Marvin Heiferman, and Gary Nickard.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982 American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers.