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

Olivia Parker
Born	1941 Boston
Alma mater	Wellesley College
Known for	Still-life photography
Website	https://www.oliviaparker.com/

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

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