A TIME'S UNRAVELING WONDER: THE CELEBRATIONS OF OLIVIA PARKER.

NP., ND. First Edition. The portfolio is limited to 85 numbered copies, with each print hand signed by the artist and hand dated 1981, 1984, 1986. Portfolio 16 X 20 inches containing one page of text by John Wood, and three platinum print photographs by Olivia Parker. The image size is 5 X 7 inches printed on the 16 X 20 sheets. The images are "Broken Nautilus", "End Game" and "Dovecote", considered to be iconic images within Ms. Parker's oeuvre. Folio, publisher's cloth chemise housing the platinum prints and textual page, all in portfolio format. Fine copy. VERY RARE. COPIES SELDOM IF EVER SURFACE IN THE MARKETPLACE.
Olivia Parker has had more than a hundred one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and her work is represented in several major private, corporate and museum collections. She has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts - Boston and International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.
"Mostly self-taught in photography, she usually constructs what she photographs in the studio. Her photographs are fundamentally still life inspired by those painted in the traditional Dutch, Flemish and Spanish century styles.