Olivia Parker
Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.
Olivia Parker
- Name
- Olivia Parker
- Birthplace
- Boston
- Born
- 1941
- Known for
- Still-life photography
- Education
- Wellesley College Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · artist
- Languages
- English
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• Website — https: www.oliviaparker.com/ • Name — Olivia Parker • Birthplace — Boston • Born — 1941 • Known for — Still-life photography • Education — Wellesley College Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Parker was born in Boston in 1941. She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1963.
Career
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. 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. An exhibition catalog accompanied the exhibition. Parker was inducted in the International Photography Hall of Fame in 2019, along with Ralph Gibson, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and others.
Family life
Family life
Parker and her investor husband John moved into a house in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967. He died in 2016 after living with Alzheimer’s for years. Her series Vanishing in Plain Sight was about his illness.
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Parker's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Peabody Essex Museum.
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