Olive Pierce
Olive Pierce
Photographer
Photographer Olive Pierce will give a slide lecture about her life and work as a documentary photographer at Colby College on Monday November 12, 2001 at 4:30 p.m. in room 154 in Bixler Art and Music Building.
Olive Pierce is a photographer, writer, and teacher. She holds a BA in
English from Vassar College, and has studied with photographers Berenice
Abbott and Paul Caponigro. She is the author of two documentary books: No
Easy Roses: A Look at the Lives of City Teenagers, and Up River: The Story
of a Maine Fishing Community. She is currently working on her third book
which will be about Iraqui children.
Her work has been shown nationally and is owned by The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Addison Gallery, Andover, The Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, and private collectors. She has taught at the New England School of Photography and founded the photography program at the public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives half the time in Cambridge, Massachusetts and half the time in Maine.
Olive Pierces’ lecture, which is sponsored by the Colby College Art Department and the Arts Lecture Fund, is open to the public without charge.