Lois Conner

Lois Conner (born 1951) is an American photographer. She is noted particularly for her platinum print landscapes that she produces with a 7" x 17" format banquet camera.

Early life Conner was born in New York City in 1951 and grew up in southern Pennsylvania. apprenticing with a painter as a teenager, and later studying fashion design and taking dance, art, and photography classes in New York City. She moved to New York City in 1971 where she worked for the United Nations until 1984. Among her other exhibitions were solo shows Asie-la ligne du paysage (1997) in Lausanne, Switzerland, The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (2005) and Twirling the Lotus: Photographs of China and Tibet (2007) in London, Beijing: Unfurling the Landscape (2014) at Australian National University, and A Long View at the Shanghai Center of Photography (2018). Lois Conner Photographs. 2003.

Collections Conner's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian American Art Museum, She was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship.