Lois Conner is a landscape photographer, she mainly travels throughout Asia and America to capture their landscapes she takes wide shots and tries to capture as much information in one plane. She then creates large prints of the photos she wants to imitate the experience she has when she views these parts of the world. Printing the larger creates more time for the viewer to investigate the photos. Conner does work in color but these photos are often manipulated and have overlays to create a new and unrealistic landscapes. In one interview Conner said “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’m a born traveler and adventurer, and an obsessive collector and observer of landscape, attempting to twist what the camera faithfully describes into something of fiction.” Conner started is an American based artist in 1982 she began to work in an elongated format, using a panoramic which were inspired in part by Ming dnasty paintings she had studied while in graduate school.
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