Olivia Parker

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Olivia Parker
Born1941
Boston
Alma mater Wellesley College
Known forStill-life photography
Website https://www.oliviaparker.com/

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

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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] [5] An exhibition catalog accompanied the exhibition. [6]

Parker was inducted in the International Photography Hall of Fame in 2019, along with Ralph Gibson, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and others. [7]

Collections

Parker's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [8] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [9] [10] [11] Museum of Modern Art, New York, [12] and the Peabody Essex Museum. [13]

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]

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