Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s.[1]
Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire.[2]
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.[3]
Since 1979, Papageorge has directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students have included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lois Conner, Abelardo Morell, Andrew Bush, Susan Lipper, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Le, Anna Gaskell, and Katy 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. [2]
| “ | 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?[2] | ” |
4. Opera Città. ISBN 978-88-95410-24-1.Punctum Editions Rome 2010(Distribution in A,CH,D,NL:Visual Books Berlin)