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Richard Pare was born in England in 1948. In his early years he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. Later he studied photography and graphic design in Winchester and at Ravensbourne College of Art before moving to the United States in 1971. In 1973 he graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and since then he has been working as a photographer with a particular affinity for architecture. His most recent project is an ongoing study of the architecture of the Russian Avantgarde. In 1996 he published Tadao Ando. The Colours of Light which received the AIA monograph award. He was curator of the Seagram photography collection from 1974 until 1985. He was the founding curator for the photography collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture from its inception in 1974 until he became a consultant to the collection in 1989 , a role he continues to fulfill. His works have been exhibited widely and he is represented in many of the major public collections of photography. He continues to write and lecture on the history of photography. His numerous seminal exhibitions and publications include Court House: A Photographic Document (1978) Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939 (1982), and The Lost Vanguard, Architecture of the Russian Avantgarde 1922-1932.
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