Richard Pare
1948 - Present
Richard Pare is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Chicago in 1973. He was the founding curator of the Photography Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Richard Pare curated the exhibition "Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1982. Exhibitions of his photographs include "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32" (2007) and "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes" at the Museum of Modern Art (2013).
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