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Tod Papageorge (* 1940 in Portsmouth , New Hampshire ) is an American photographer who has made a name for himself with street photography .

Papageorge began photography during the final semesters of his literature studies at the University of New Hampshire . In 1970 he received two Guggenheim Fellowships . At the same time he began teaching. Since 1979 he has been a professor at Yale University ; there he directed the graduate program in photography, which Philip-Lorca diCorcia , Lois Conner , Abelardo Morell , Andrew Bush , Susan Lipper , Gregory Crewdson , An-My Le , Anna Gaskell and Katy Grannan attended.

His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including in Europe. Works by Papageorge, who also received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts , have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago . He has published several books with his photographs. Carla Bley also brought him in as a spokesperson for the recordings of Escalator over the Hill .

Fonts

• Passing through Eden. Photographs of Central Park. Steidl, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-374-7 .
• American Sports, 1970. Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam. Aperture Foundation, New York NY 2007, ISBN 978-1-59711-050-1 .
• Opera Città. Punctum Editions, Rome 2010, ISBN 978-88-95410-24-1 .
• Core curriculum. Writings on Photography. Aperture Foundation, New York NY 2011, ISBN 978-1-59711-172-0 .
• Dr. Blankman's New York . Göttingen: Steidl, 2018 ISBN 978-3-95829-108-9

Web links

• Short biography (Yale)
• Tod Papageorge Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence
• Article from New York Magazine 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography Pace MacGill Gallery
2. ↑ Richard B. Woodward: Tod Papageorge (interview) . BOMB magazine, H. 97 Fall 2006. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
3. ↑ Robert Ayers: Tod Papageorge . ARTINFO. April 24, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2016.