A Workshop with Linda Connor

A few weeks ago I took a photography workshop with Linda Connor. It was
intended to help you refine your photographic vision. The experience
is still resonating. A lot was packed into the workshop, I am still unpacking from it.

She is one of the great photographers [and teachers]. I carry several of her landscapes
and portraits around in my head. And she is a direct link to another hero of mine
Harry Callahan; he was one of her teachers at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She shared some great stories about her time with him. Once a young museum
curator asked him what makes a great photographer. There was a long, long
pause before Harry grunted, "Beethoven."

Linda suggested I check out Joel Sternfeld. A good call on her part.
It is so lovely to be introduced to great work by a photographer formerly
unknown to me. I now own three monographs by him: AMERICAN PROSPECTS,
SWEET EARTH, and ON THIS SITE. I found this great YouTube video about his work on
the Highline in New York City: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNzr7g8FQgk