Olivia Parker

An Insight to Olivia Parker, one of the

most iconic figures in modern day
photography.

About the
Photographer.
Olivia Parker had a degree in Art History when she graduated from Wellesley College in 1963.
She started her career as a painter., But had a change of heart back in 1970 when she was
fascinated by Photography.
What makes Olivia Parkers work so unique and dazzling is that most of her photography is selftaught. The majority of her work is constructed in her studio. Her work is centred around
Still LifeFruit is often a popular object with Olivia Parkers photography, Like these two
pictures displayed here:

"The themes in my work include:

diagrams of the unseeable, words
considered for both their verbal
and visual presence, games, double
meanings, maps, an interplay of
natural and man-made structures,
pure gesture, perspectives of how
different things are thought of at
different times, things taken apart
and reassembled in the present.
- Olivia Parker