Olivia Parker

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

Early life and education Parker was born in Boston in 1941. She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in art history

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. An exhibition catalog accompanied the exhibition.

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

Collections Parker's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Peabody Essex Museum.

Family life Parker and her investor husband John moved into a house in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967. He died in 2016 after living with Alzheimer’s for years. Her series Vanishing in Plain Sight was about his illness.