Tod Papageorge (b. 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire) began to photograph during his last term at the University of New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1962 with a B.A. in English literature. In 1970 he received the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships in photography and, at about the same time, began his teaching career in New York City. His work has been widely exhibited nationally and in Europe, and is represented in more than thirty major public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Two collections of his photographs, Passing through Eden: Photographs of Central Park and American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, were published in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He was recently shortlisted for the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 1979 Papageorge was appointed the Walker Evans Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, where he has taught many of the strongest photographers of the past thirty years, including Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Abelardo Morell, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Lê, Katy Grannan, and Tim Davis. Papageorge is the author of Public Relations: The Photographs of Garry Winogrand and Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, prepared in conjunction with exhibitions that he curated for the Museum of Modern Art in 1977 and the Yale University Art Gallery in 1981. In 2001, the YUAG also published his seminal essay on the work of Robert Adams. Go back to top               Printable PDF version