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LOIS CONNER

For more than three decades, American photographer Lois Conner has journeyed through various parts of China, exploring the country’s diverse landscapes and cultures. During her first trip to China on a nine-month Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, Conner traveled to Guilin and discovered the dramatic terraced cliffs and surreal mountain formations, as seen in the Chinese landscape or scroll paintings she had initially studied in art history

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