Tod Papageorge
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Biography
Born 1940 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Education
1979 – 2013
Walker Evans Professor of Photography/Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1978 – 1979
Walker Evans Visiting Professor of Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1975 – 1976
Lecturer in Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1974 – 1975
Lecturer in Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972 – 1974
Adjunct Lecturer in Photography, Queens College, Flushing, New York
1971 – 1974
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Pratt Institute of Art, New York
1969 – 1972
Visiting Instructor in Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York
1969
M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1962
B.A., University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Grants and Awards
2012
Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary
2010
The Rome Commission, Rome Photography Festival, Rome, Italy
2009
Resident in the Visual Art, the American Academy in Rome, Italy
Shortlist, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1979
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1977
Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography
1976
Fellowship-Grant in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
1973
Fellowship-Grant in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts
1970
Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Tod Papageorge. At the Beach, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2022
Tod Papageorge. The Beaches, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California
2021
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)
2018
Tod Papageorge, Dr. Blankman’s New York, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2016
Tod Papageorge. Six-neuf, 1975-1990, Le Château d’ Eau, Toulouse, France
2014
Tod Papageorge. Studio 54, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2010
Tod Papageorge. Opera Città, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
1981
Tod Papageorge, The Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
1978
Photographs by Tod Papageorge, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1976
Tod Papageorge, The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 – 2024
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2022
“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
2020
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2018 – 2019
The Flâneur. From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2014
The Social Medium, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2012
Walker Evans & The American Social Landscape Photographers, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2011
America: Now & Here, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Exposed: Photography & the Classical Nude, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2010
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
2009
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
2006
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
2004
Super Hist of the '70s - Photographs from the Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2003
Affinities...Now and Then, H&R Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2002
Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001
Selections from the Permanent Collection, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2000
The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1999
Modern Starts, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photographing the Intangible, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1996
Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Oregon
1995
The Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991
Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pop Goes America!, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1990
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
1987
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
1985
Eloquent Light: American Photography 1945-1980, Barbican National Gallery, London, UK
1984
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
1983
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
1982
Three Generations: Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Tod Papageorge, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
1980
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
1979
American Photography in the ‘70s, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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
1976
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
1975
Fourteen American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1974
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
1973
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
Photography: The Descriptive Tradition, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1969
Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Selected Bibliography
2019
Tod Papageorge. On the Acropolis, Stanley/Barker, London, UK
2018
Tod Papageorge. Dr. Blankman´s New York, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2014
Tod Papageorge. Studio 54, Stanley Barker, London, UK
2011
Papageorge, Tod / Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, Aperture, New York
2010
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
2009
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Paul Graham, Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge and Taryn Simon, London, UK
2007
Mora, Gilles: The Last Photographic Heroes. American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies, Abrams Books, New York
2008
Tod Papageorge. American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, New York
2007
Tod Papageorge. Passing Through Eden, Photographs of Central Park, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2001
Real Life: Photographs of Tod Papageorge, Index Magazine, Issue April/May 2001
2000
Galassi, Peter: Walker Evans and Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999
Elderfield, John: Modern Starts, Museum of Modern Art, New York
An American Century of Photography, Harry Abrams Inc., New York
1994
Westerbeck, Colin / Meyerowitz, Joel: Bystander. A History of Street Photography, Bullfinch Press, Boston, Massachusetts
1985
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
1984
Green, Jonathan: American Photography. A Critical History, Harry Abrams Inc., New York
1983
The History and the Collection, Harry Abrams Inc., Museum of Modern Art, New York
Appel, Alfred: Signs of Life, Alfred Knopf Inc., New York
1982
Stange, Maren: Contemporary Photographers, Martin’s Press, New York
1979
Danese, Renato: American Images. New Work by Twenty American Photographers, McGraw Hill, New York
1978
Courthouse, Horizon Press, New York
1975
Fourteen American Photographers, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1974
Green, Jonathan: The Snapshot, Aperture, New York
Public Collections
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