About This Image

Work is nicely framed in black wood. Reflections on the acrylic aren't on the image.

Lois Conner’s work encourages the viewer to explore the similarities and nuances of our world. Though we are shown a moment in time of a specific place, her images invite us to consider the history of that place, its culture and its connection to other places.

“What I am trying to reveal through photography in a deliberate yet subtle way is a sense of history. I would like my photographs to describe my relationship between the tangible and the imagined, between fact and fiction. I am a born traveler and adventurer, and an obsessive collector and observer of the landscape, I am attempting to twist what the camera faithfully describes into something of fiction”. Conner first went to China on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and has returned every year since. She has made dozens of trips photographing China for more than 30 years.

She is a graduate of Yale University’s prestigious Photography MFA program and continues to print her works in both the exquisite platinum-palladium process as well large-format pigment printing.

Her work is in the collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

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