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For five decades, Olivia Parker has created alluring, poetic fine art photographs that transform the everyday and enchant the familiar.
Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in Art History, Olivia Parker began to make and photograph ephemeral constructions in 1973. Represented in major private, corporate and museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts ...
Olivia Parker is one of the foremost still-life photographers of her generation. She draws inspiration from the histories of art and science, using natural light to transform ephemeral objects, both natural and man-made, into images for contemplation.
Olivia Parker began her career as a painter, and became involved in photography in 1970. Mostly self-taught, she began working in her studio, constructing images to be photographed. Her first book, Signs of Life, featured simple images seen with keen insight: a perfect white orchid, a pair of ballet slippers, pea pods sitting on a counter.
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in the History of Art, Parker began her career as a painter, and became involved in photography in 1970. Mostly self-taught she makes ephemeral constructions to photograph and experiments with the endless possibilities of light.
Jan 19, 2015 · Olivia Parker’s photographs are experiments within the still-life tradition, informed by art history and consistently engaged with ever-evolving photo technology.
Project info. For thirty eight years I have made pictures that come out of the still life genre: the comfort of the table with food or a vase of flowers and the despair of the vanitas and memento mori with their reminders that life and death are inseparable.
Jul 13, 2019 · From deceptively simple still lifes that transform the commonplace to her most recent work exploring memory loss, this is the first exhibition to present a comprehensive overview of Parker’s extensive career.
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in the history of art, Olivia Parker began her career as a painter. Parker became involved in photography in1970 and remains largely self-taught, making ephemeral constructions to photograph and experimenting with the endless possibilities of light.
