Name Tod Papageorge | Role Photographer | |
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Books Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park, Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
tod papageorge passing through eden photographs of central park
Tod Papageorge (born 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. Between 1979 and 2013 he directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art.
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- tod papageorge passing through eden photographs of central park
- American sports 1970 or how we spent war in vietnam by tod papageorge
- Life and work
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American sports 1970 or how we spent war in vietnam by tod papageorge
Life and work
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 photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lois Conner, Abelardo Morell, Andrew Bush, Susan Lipper, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Le, Anna Gaskell, Steve Giovinco, and Katy Grannan.
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.