Richard Pare
Richard Pare (born 20 January 1948 in Portsmouth, England) is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Chicago in 1973.
Richard Pare
- Born
- 1948 · Portsmouth.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- photographer
- Fields
- photography
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Richard Pare (born 20 January 1948 in Portsmouth, England) is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Chicago in 1973.
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1948
Richard Pare born at Portsmouth.
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He was the founding curator of the Photography Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Pare curated the exhibition "Photography and Architecture: 1839–1939" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1982. Exhibitions of his photographs include "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32" (2007) and "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes" at the Museum of Modern Art (2013).
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is photography. Work by Richard Pare is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada and Photography Collection. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Richard Pare (1982). Photography and Architecture, 1839–1939. Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; [New York]: Callaway Editions. • Richard Pare (1996). The Colours of Light: Tadao Ando Architecture. London: Phaidon. • Richard Pare (2007). The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932. New York: The Monacelli Press. • Richard Pare and Jean-Louis Cohen (2018). Le Corbusier: The Built Work. New York: The Monacelli Press. • Richard Pare (2018). Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light, Volume 1. London: Phaidon. (2nd edition)
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