Signs of Life
Medium: Book, Hardcover
Date:1978
Boston; David R. Godine; 1978; 1st Edition; 1st Printing; Oblong 4to; Cloth; Fine in Very Good dust jacket; First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition, Very Good, somewhat spine-sunned and edge-worn dust-jacket. From the collection of Susan Spiritus.
All of the photographs from "Signs of Life" were made from a view camera using 4x5 and 5x7 backs. Each of the photographs were contact printed on silver chloride paper and toned in selenium. They were not printed in limited editions.
BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in the History of Art, Parker began her career as a painter, and became involved in photography in 1970. Mostly self-taught she makes ephemeral constructions to photograph and experiments with the endless possibilities of light. She has had more than one hundred one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and her work is represented in major private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Portfolios of her work have been published in Art News, American Photographer, Camera, Camera Arts, The Sciences and numerous other magazines in the United States, Europe, and Japan. There have been three monographs of Parker’s work: Signs of Life (Godine, 1978), Under the Looking Glass (New York Graphic Society, 1983), and Weighing The Planets (New York Graphic Society, 1987).
The few early vintage works that the gallery has were produced in small limited editions from Olivia Parker’s pre-digital period. They are silver chloride prints printed from 4×5 or 8×10 sheet film.