- 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. [cite web | last = Woodward | first = Richard B. | authorlink = Richard B. Woodward | title = Tod Papageorge (interview) | publisher = BOMB magazine, issue 97 | date = Fall 2006 | url = http://www.bombsite.com/papageorge/papageorge.html | accessdate = 2007-07-04 ]Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire. citation | title=Tod Papageorge | author= Robert Ayers | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2008 | date= April 24, 2008 | url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27410/tod-papageorge/ | accessdate=2008-05-14 ]
He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two
NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. His work is in public collections including theMuseum of Modern Art and theArt Institute of Chicago . [cite web | title = Tod Papageorge (faculty bio) | publisher = Yale University School of Art | url = http://art.yale.edu/TodPapageorge | accessdate = 2007-07-04]Since 1979, Papageorge has directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students have included
Philip-Lorca diCorcia ,Abelardo Morell , Susan Lipper,Gregory Crewdson ,An-My Le ,Anna Gaskell , andKaty 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. citation | title=Tod Papageorge | author= Robert Ayers | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2008 | date= April 24, 2008 | url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27410/tod-papageorge/ | accessdate=2008-05-14 ]
Books
*Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden (Steidl, 2007) ISBN 386521374X
*Tod Papageorge: American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam (Steidl, 2007) ISBN 1597110507References
External links
* [http://ericetheridge.com/wordblog/archives/2007/08/the_missing_cri.html/ Tod Papageorge's essay "Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence"]
* [http://nymag.com/arts/arts/all/features/29995/ "New York" magazine article about Papageorge from 2007]
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