Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
27 March — 21 June 2009
Connor's photographs reveal the essence of her subjects, yielding a sense of timelessness while visually evoking the intangible. She uses a distinctive technique.
A large-format view camera allows her to achieve remarkable clarity and rich detail. Her prints are created by direct contact of the 8x10-inch negative on printing-out paper, exposed and developed using sunlight.
Toned and fixed with gold chloride, the prints have a warmth, luminosity, and delicacy seldom found in standard photographic printing.
After studying with revered American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, Connor went on to a distinguished teaching career at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate students since 1969.
Although her work has been widely exhibited and published, Odyssey is a comprehensive and cohesive exhibition representing thirty years of her photographs.
She has composed a sequence to guide viewers into making unexpected associations, providing a more poetic way to view her images.
Connor has been involved in many aspects of this presentation, from selecting the images to sequencing and exhibition design.
By grouping the prints and not describing them with individual labels, she encourages viewers to fall into a photographic odyssey.
This arrangement seems to dislodge our sense of linear time, concrete place, and documentation.
The cumulative experience may be about tranquility, spirituality, meditation, or discovery.
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