Linda Connor
Linda Connor (born November 18, 1944) is an American photographer who photographs spiritual and exotic locations including India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest.[1]
Connor studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master's degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Connor's photographs appear in a number of books, including Spiral Journey, a catalog of her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1990. Connor was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1988 and 1976, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979. Connor's work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In 1971, her work is represented in group exhibition at Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.
Connor's noted 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 meticulously arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres.
Connor is a professor in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute where she has taught since 1969.[2] She is also a founding director of the San Francisco Bay Area non-profit group, PhotoAlliance.
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