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Order of imagination : the photographs of Olivia Parker / edited by Sarah Kennel ; with contributions by Sarah Kennel, Olivia Parker, Rachel Hadas, and Virginia Myhaver.

Title
Order of imagination : the photographs of Olivia Parker / edited by Sarah Kennel ; with contributions by Sarah Kennel, Olivia Parker, Rachel Hadas, and Virginia Myhaver.
Publication
Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Hadas, Rachel,
  • Kennel, Sarah,
  • Myhaver, Virginia,
  • Parker, Olivia.
  • Peabody Essex Museum, host institution.
Description
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
"For more than forty years, Olivia Parker's poetic and alluring photographs have transformed the everyday and made the familiar strange. In deceptively simple still lives and complex, dreamlike constructions that incorporate a rich variety of found objects, her photographs create unexpected juxtapositions that provoke uncertainty and delight. Parker's longstanding fascination with flux and change extends to her most recent series, a powerful meditation on the devastating loss of her husband to Alzheimer's disease. This volume, the definitive study of Parker's career, includes curator Sarah Kennel's detailed artistic biography and poet and essayist Rachel Hadas's reflections on art's ability to offer solace amidst grief. More than one hundred beautifully illustrated works, many of which are published here for the first time, are accompanied by Parker's lyrical reflections on her art and process. This publication accompanies the exhibition Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker on view at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, from July 13 to November 11, 2019. Formerly The Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Sarah Kennel is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta"--
Subject
  • Parker, Olivia > Exhibitions
  • Parker, Olivia
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This publication accompanies the exhibition Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker on view at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, from July 13 to November 11, 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Dwellings of the imagination : Olivia Parker / Sarah Kennel -- Vanishing in plain sight / Rachel Hadas -- Plates -- Signs of life -- Instant anomalies -- Miscellanea curiosa -- Sea change -- Still and not so still life -- Vanishing in plain sight -- Illustrated chronology.
ISBN
  • 9780875772400
  • 0875772404
LCCN
2019011631
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries