Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s.[1]
Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire.[2]
He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. His work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.[3]
Since 1979, Papageorge has directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students have included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lois Conner, Abelardo Morell, Andrew Bush, Susan Lipper, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Le, Anna Gaskell, and Katy Grannan.
In the summer of 2007, Steidl published Passing Through Eden, a collection of images he took over 25 years in Central Park. In the fall of 2007, Aperture published American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam. This volume features photographs Papageorge took during his 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship. [2]
| “ | This ridiculous-seeming activity of walking along the street and lifting up a little camera is so powerful, so complicated, and so resistant to being mastered. If I had the choice between doing that and sitting in an office somewhere … Are you kidding?[2] | ” |
[edit] Books
- Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden (Steidl, 2007) ISBN 386521374X
- Tod Papageorge: American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam (Aperture, 2007) ISBN 978-1-59711-050-1
- Tod Papageorge: OPERA Città.(Punctum Editions,Rome 2010) ISBN 978-88-95410-24-1 (Distribution for USA by DAP. Distribution for Austria,Germany,Switzerland,the Netherlands by Visual Books Berlin)
- Tod Papageorge: Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography (Aperture, 2011) ISBN 978-1-59711-172-0
[edit] References
- ^ Woodward, Richard B. (Fall 2006). "Tod Papageorge (interview)". BOMB magazine, issue 97. http://www.bombsite.com/papageorge/papageorge.html. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
- ^ a b c Robert Ayers (April 24, 2008). Tod Papageorge. ARTINFO. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27410/tod-papageorge/. Retrieved 2008-05-14
- ^ "Tod Papageorge (faculty bio)". Yale University School of Art. http://art.yale.edu/TodPapageorge. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
4. Opera Città. ISBN 978-88-95410-24-1.Punctum Editions Rome 2010(Distribution in A,CH,D,NL:Visual Books Berlin)
