Connie Imboden’s photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The National Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Bibliotheque Nationales in Paris, France, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany and many other public and private collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas Throughout the years, Imboden has shown her photographs in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums within the United States, South America, Europe, and China In 1993, Connie Imboden won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s “Schonste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World)” Award for her first book of images entitled “Out of Darkness” Her most recent book, “Reflections, 25 Years of Photography”, features photos from 1983 to 2009 charting Imboden’s artistic journey and offering new insights into her work and vision She taught photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where her experience as a photographer began, as well as many workshops around the world Imboden is also the president of the board of governors of the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund The Baker Fund focuses its grant-making exclusively non Arts and Culture and, 2008, initiated the Baker Artists Awards, an innovative online process offering significant prizes to emerging and established artists of any discipline.

Colored Reflective Images: Bodyscapes & Portraits

This project started as a homework assignment for the online class From Concept to Presentation.  I started with one mirror.  Utilizing complementary colors, I explored the combinations of orange and blue, red and green, and yellow and purple.  I tried one color, and I tried off-color combinations.  Ultimately, the complementary combinations were the best, and I gravitated to orange and blue, my two favorite colors.

 I wanted to create an image that stood out from old concepts. I first was more concerned about bodyscape.  In the past, a bodyscape was a naked body in black and white with the edge of the form lit with harsh white light.  I wanted to add color and show multiple facets of the body in one image, thus the mirror.  All these images are created in a camera utilizing colored strobes and mirrors.  I also wanted to develop a sense of confusion as a photograph invokes you to question what is happening.

I started with nude models.  They created significant confusion.  Then I wanted more structure and form and moved to dancers, creating striking shapes. One mirror was fascinating, even though something was missing.  I added a second mirror; the confusion was terrific.  As we are in a society always wanting more, I added a third mirror, and the illusion was mind-blowing.

Ultimately, what you see is what I and the camera saw - confusion, beauty, form, color, and multiple facets of a person or body.

While working on the bodyscape, I would also take some time and photograph portraits of the models and dancers.  These were revealing as you can see two different sides of a person.  The images lead to a movie poster and an album cover.

I hope you enjoy this fascinating world I created.

Visit The Providence Art Club Maxwell Mays Gallery from March 26 – April 14, 2023 for this curated exhibition featuring a variety of artworks from photographer Daniel Forster, mixed media artist Scott Glaser, & photographer Howard Rotblat-Walker.