Olivia Parker

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

[1] She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in art history[1] in 1963.

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.

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

[13] Parker and her investor husband John moved into a house in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967.