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In the 1960s, Tod Papageorge had a close artistic exchange with Garry Winogrand. Both artists used to meet almost daily to take photographs in the streets of New York. During those days, some icons of photography history originated, which with their intuition and intensity exude a unique kind of lightness.
As a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and a teaching professor at Yale University for many years, Papageorge’s influence on contemporary photography can hardly be overestimated. Renowned photographers like Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson, or Anna Gaskell were among his students. All of Tod Papageorge’s works are based on an interest in people as social beings. Be it his images of sports stadiums, his photographs of everyday life in Central Park or the images from the legendary New York night club Studio 54, that was frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger and Grace Jones, in all his photographs people are characterized through the group they belong to and their experience of the present moment. Papageorge always had his camera at hand and between 1978 and 1980 he celebrated with the rich and beautiful, the artists and starlets; even today viewers can witness the eccentric and hedonistic party nights in his photographs. They revive the feeling of the disco era and express a profoundly urban spirit of directness, which condensed in New York at that time.
His works are intense portraits of America marked by a powerful authenticity.
Born 1940 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Walker Evans Professor of Photography/Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Walker Evans Visiting Professor of Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Lecturer in Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lecturer in Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Adjunct Lecturer in Photography, Queens College, Flushing, New York
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Pratt Institute of Art, New York
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York
M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
B.A., University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary
The Rome Commission, Rome Photography Festival, Rome, Italy
Resident in the Visual Art, the American Academy in Rome, Italy
Shortlist, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography
Fellowship-Grant in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship-Grant in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography
Tod Papageorge: Studio 54, Zander Galerie, Paris, France
Tod Papageorge. At the Beach, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Tod Papageorge. The Beaches, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California
Tod Papageorge. War & Peace in New York, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Tod Papageorge. On The Acropolis, Danziger Gallery, New York & Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California, USA (curated by Noah Baumbach)
Tod Papageorge: Studio 54, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Tod Papageorge, Dr. Blankman’s New York, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Tod Papageorge. Six-neuf, 1975-1990, Le Château d’ Eau, Toulouse, France
Tod Papageorge. Studio 54, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Tod Papageorge. Opera Città, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
Tod Papageorge, The Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Photographs by Tod Papageorge, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Tod Papageorge, The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Wariness, Kindness and The Beauty of Man(kind), Kunst Kunz, Munich, Germany
ONLINE: Before Midnight, Danziger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
“Earth: A Retrospective”. El Ultimo Grito and the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, València, Spain
Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, PhotoEspaña 2022, Círculo de Bellas Artes & Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
Menschen auf der Straße, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
The Flâneur. From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Social Medium, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Walker Evans & The American Social Landscape Photographers, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
America: Now & Here, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Exposed: Photography & the Classical Nude, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
In the Vernacular, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A Question of Time, American Academy of Rome, Rome, Italy
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York
American Street Photography from the 40s to the 80s, Vienna City Museum, Vienna, Austria
Picturing New York: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, City Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
De Malangatana a Pedro Cabrita Reis, Obras da Colecção Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Centro de Artes de Sines, Sines, Portugal
De Malangatana a Pedro Cabrita Reis – Obras da Colecção Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Mosteiro São Martinho de Tibães, Braga, Portugal
Deutsche Börse, Photography Prize 2009, C/O Berlin, Germany
Reality Revisted, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Signs of the Times, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Super Hist of the ’70s – Photographs from the Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Affinities…Now and Then, H&R Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Modern Starts, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photographing the Intangible, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Oregon
The Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pop Goes America!, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
A Collection of Photographs, Jewett Museum of Art, Wellesley College (with Harold Edgerton, Frank Gohlke, and Aaron Siskind), Wellesley, Massachusetts
New York, New York: The City in Photographs, Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts
Diamonds Are Forever, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
Central Park, Tod Papageorge, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, The Dairy, Central Park, New York
American Dreams, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Eloquent Light: American Photography 1945-1980, Barbican National Gallery, London, UK
The Dog Observed, The Dog Museum, New York
Exposed and Developed: National Endowment for the Arts Photographers, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Family of Man, 1955-1984, Institute for Art and Human Resources, Long Island City, New York
Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Night Time, New York: 1930-1982, The City Gallery, New York Cultural Center, New York
Contemporary Photography, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Three Generations: Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Tod Papageorge, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, International Center of Photography, New York
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Great West: Real/Ideal, International Center of Photography, New York
American Photography in the ‘70s, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photographs from the Target Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Courthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Three Photographers, The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
American Photography, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
One Hundred Master Photographs, from the Collection of the MoMa, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The American Courthouse (with Stephen Shore), The Seagram’s Building, New York
Fourteen American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
New Images in Photography: Object and Illusion, The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Public Landscapes: An Exhibition of Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photography: The Descriptive Tradition, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Tod Papageorge. On the Acropolis, Stanley/Barker, London, UK
Tod Papageorge. Dr. Blankman´s New York, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Tod Papageorge. Studio 54, Stanley Barker, London, UK
Papageorge, Tod / Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, Aperture, New York
Papageorge, Tod: Opera Città, Punctum Press, Rome, Italy
Maroci, Roxana: The Original Copy. Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Paul Graham, Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge and Taryn Simon, London, UK
Mora, Gilles: The Last Photographic Heroes. American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies, Abrams Books, New York
Tod Papageorge. American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, New York
Tod Papageorge. Passing Through Eden, Photographs of Central Park, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Real Life: Photographs of Tod Papageorge, Index Magazine, Issue April/May 2001
Galassi, Peter: Walker Evans and Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Elderfield, John: Modern Starts, Museum of Modern Art, New York
An American Century of Photography, Harry Abrams Inc., New York
Westerbeck, Colin / Meyerowitz, Joel: Bystander. A History of Street Photography, Bullfinch Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Turner, Peter: American Images. Photography 1945-1980, Viking Press, New York
Auer, Michele and Michel: Photographers’ International Encyclopedia, 1939 to the Present, Camera Obscura Editions, Hermance, Switzerland
Jussim, Estelle / Elizabeth Lindquist: Landscape as Photograph, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Green, Jonathan: American Photography. A Critical History, Harry Abrams Inc., New York
The History and the Collection, Harry Abrams Inc., Museum of Modern Art, New York
Appel, Alfred: Signs of Life, Alfred Knopf Inc., New York
Stange, Maren: Contemporary Photographers, Martin’s Press, New York
Danese, Renato: American Images. New Work by Twenty American Photographers, McGraw Hill, New York
Courthouse, Horizon Press, New York
Fourteen American Photographers, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Green, Jonathan: The Snapshot, Aperture, New York
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Canadian Center of Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
KMS Fine Art Group, Baar, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
The National Exchange Bank, Chicago, Illinois
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, Utah
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seagram’s, Inc., New York
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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