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Conniff Prints |
For more than thirty years photographer Gregory Conniff has focused his attention on the landscapes of daily life, convinced that those places - and how they look - are the soil into which we sink our roots as human beings. Using a direct and self-effacing visual language, Conniff's pictures point directly to the deep beauty of the ordinary world and are part of his argument that the overlooked, the ephemeral, and what grows unmanaged along the margins play insufficiently examined roles in how we live and who we think we are. Educated at Columbia and the University of Virginia, Conniff came to national visibility with a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1979. He has received numerous fellowships, including two from the NEA and one from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work can be found in many public collections such as those of the Corcoran, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museums of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, and The Center for Creative Photography. For Tandem, Conniff is exploring the idea of looking now at a subject he first addressed thirty years ago -- pairing old and new images, finishing what he started and seeing what he's learned along the way. For more, please see his essay "Film, Ink, Paper, Time" in the summer 2007 issue of the Tandem newsletter. All material © |
