Tod Papageorge (born in

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, 1940) is an American

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...

whose career began in the New York City

street photography Street photography is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within Public space, public places. It usually has the aim of capturing images at a decisive or poignant moment by caref ...

movement of the 1960s. He is the recipient of two

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and two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. His work is in public collections including the

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and the

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. Between 1979 and 2013 he directed the graduate program in photography at the

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Life and work

Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the

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. Between 1979 and 2013, he directed the graduate program in photography at the

, where his students included Lois Conner,

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, Anna Gaskell, Steve Giovinco, Katy Grannan, An-My Le, Susan Lipper, and

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. In 2007,

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published ''Passing through Eden'', a collection of photographs Papageorge took over 25 years in

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. Also in 2007,

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published ''American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam'', containing photographs taken during his 1970

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

Books

*''Passing through Eden.'' Göttingen:

, 2007. . *''American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam.'' New York:

, 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. .

Exhibitions

*2013: ''Studio 54,''

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, Paris, 25 January–12 April 2014.Tod Papageorge, Studio 54
,

. Retrieved December 7! 2014.

References

External links

Tod Papageorge's essay "Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence"''New York'' magazine article about Papageorge from 2007
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