Tod Papageorge
Illustration — Papageorge at the Photographers' Gallery (London), 2014 Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire United States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. 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.
Tod Papageorge
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- Born
- 1940 · Portsmouth.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · university teacher
- Education
- University of New Hampshire
- Honours
- Lucie Award · Guggenheim Fellowship
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Illustration — Papageorge at the Photographers' Gallery (London), 2014 Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire United States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. 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.
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Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is a photographer and university teacher, of American nationality. The photographer was born in Portsmouth.
Tod Papageorge was educated at University of New Hampshire. The photographer worked for Yale University.
Works are held at Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship and Lucie Award.
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Life and work
Between 1979 and 2013 he directed the graduate program in photography at the Yale School of Art.
Tod Papageorge studied at University of New Hampshire. Employment is recorded with Yale University. Work by Tod Papageorge is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Lucie Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire. Between 1979 and 2013, he directed the graduate program in photography at the Yale School of Art, where his students included Lois Conner, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anna Gaskell, Steve Giovinco, Katy Grannan, An-My Le, Susan Lipper, and Abelardo Morell. In 2007, Steidl published Passing through Eden, a collection of photographs Papageorge took over 25 years in Central Park. Also in 2007, Aperture published American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, containing photographs taken during his 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship. 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?
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 2013: Studio 54, Paris Photo, Paris, 25 January–12 April 2014.
Books
• Passing through Eden. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007.. • American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam. New York: Aperture, 2007.. • Opera Città. Rome: Punctum, 2010.. • Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography. New York: Aperture, 2011.. • Studio 54. • London: Stanley Barker, 2014.. First edition. • London: Stanley Barker, 2014.. Second edition. • Dr Blankman's New York. Göttingen: Steidl, 2017. • On the Acropolis. London: Stanley Barker, 2019..
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- 1.Woodward, Richard B. Tod Papageorge (interview). BOMB magazine, issue 97. Fall 2006.
- 2.Love unlimited: Tod Papageorge photos at the height of Studio 54's fame. The Guardian. 12 November 2014.
- 3.Yale University School of Art. Tod Papageorge (faculty bio).
- 4.Ayers, Robert. Tod Papageorge. ARTINFO. April 24, 2008.
- 5.Eckinger, Sarah. Tod Papageorge Leaves Yale School of Art. Yale Daily News. 5 December 2013.
- 6.O'Hagan, Sean. Photographer Donavon Smallwood: 'What's it like to be a black person in nature?'. The Guardian. 26 June 2021.
- 7.On the Acropolis: Photographs of summer tourists in the early 1980s by Tod Papageorge. Creative Boom. 20 November 2019.
- 8."Tod Papageorge, Studio 54", Paris Photo. Retrieved December 7! 2014.
- 9.Apptitude Media Limited. Tod Papageorge pulls Studio 54 from the archive. 161. 7831. 58–59. 2014.
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