Spanish Entering Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Linda Connor

Spanish Entering Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Linda Connor

Spanish Entering Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

Linda Connor

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Title

Spanish Entering Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

 
Artist

Linda Connor

  1944 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1981  
Technique
photograph 
Image Size
7 3/4 x 9 5/8" image 
Signature
pencil, verso 
Edition Size
unstated 
Annotations
titled and dated in pencil on verso 
Reference
 
Paper
 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
14033 
Price
$800.00 
Description

This magnificent view of the Canyon de Chelly in Arizona highlights its record of geological events as seen in the massive striations falling vertically down its face, weaving in and out of the demarcations between formations. Most significantly, however, photographer Linda Connor beckons the viewer to search for the “Spanish” who are alluded to in the title; in the lower lower left we see diminutive forms, people and horses made ghostly by white elements, as they venture along the wall - Navajo pictographs rendered after the arrival of raiding Spanish colonists in 1805. Connor’s photograph becomes an historic reckoning, a metaphorical and geographical map of changes wrought by time.

 

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