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Olivia Parker
Born1941
Boston
Alma materWellesley College
Known forStill-life photography
Websitehttps://www.oliviaparker.com/

Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.

Early life and education

Parker was born in Boston in 1941.[1] She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in art history[1] in 1963.[2]

Career

Parker is interested in the parallels between art and science. Before focusing her practice on still-life photography she was trained as an art historian and also produced paintings in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch and Spanish still life works.[3]

Parker's photographs of found objects have been described as "poetic and "dreamy. A retrospective exhibition of Parker's work, titled Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, was held at the Peabody Essex Museum in 2019.[3][4] An exhibition catalog accompanied the exhibition.[5]

Parker was inducted in the International Photography Hall of Fame in 2019, along with Ralph Gibson, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and others.[6]

Collections

Parker's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[7] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[8] Museum of Modern Art, New York,[9] and the Peabody Essex Museum.[10]

Family life

Parker and her investor husband John moved into a house in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967.[1][3] He died in 2016 after living with Alzheimer’s for years.[1] Her series Vanishing in Plain Sight was about his illness.[1] [3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Olivia Parker's best photograph: an early warning of Alzheimer's". The Guardian. 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  2. ^ "Resume". oliviaparker.com. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  3. ^ a b c d Cardin, Dinah (4 November 2019). "Sea Glass and Snails: A Found Object Photographer in Manchester". Northshore Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. ^ Block, Annie (12 August 2019). "Olivia Parker's Photography Retrospective Showcases her Mastery of Light". Interior Design. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  5. ^ Spring, Elin (September–October 2019). "VANISHING POINT: Olivia Parker's photographs potently capture the edge of mortality". Architects Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  6. ^ "International Photography Hall of Fame 2019 Induction and Awards Ceremony". Ladue News. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Olivia Parker: Broken Nautiluses". mfah.org.
  8. ^ "About". oliviaparker.com. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  9. ^ "Olivia Parker | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  10. ^ "Cinquefoil, from the Ephemera Portfolio, 1975". collection.pem.org.
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