BOOK REVIEW: Constellations by Linda Connor
Her new book Constellations, exquisitely designed and published by Datz Press of South Korea, is the one book treasure I chose to have with me after the trip to Paris. The book is many things, and as always, has many readings; the main read for me is an interpretation of time. Time in photography has been somewhat subjugated to that perilous definition of The Decisive Moment. It drives an understanding of photography as only a fraction of a second, the arrested moment, time seen as synchronicity. It is magical, but one can also appreciate the anachronical time in Atget´s images. For example, the times of Paris are plural within a single image and seem even to escape the present. In Constellations, by observing many ways and times and places in which humans have raised their eyes to look at the celestial sky, she gives a sense of the wonder of the universe, the beginning and future of time we see written in those stars that paradoxically scape our conception of time. Is a book of deep spiritual insight through images. She invites us to bear witness to her wonderment. And it's joy.
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I took many treasures from our trip to Paris Photo, many memories from images seen, and experiences lived together with friends and colleagues. Regarding books, I was limited by the weight permitted in my bags and the presents I was to take to my children living abroad. So, I had to choose carefully. I´ve been admiring Linda´s work for many years, a print here and there seen in person, but mainly through the internet that keeps me in contact with the creation of some of the photographers I have come to admire and always look for inspiration.
*THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN OUR NEWSLETTER NO. 13 ON November 23rd. 2022
