Tod papageorge biography examples

American photographer

Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New HampshireUnited States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s.^[1][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] Between 1979 and 2013 he directed the graduate program in photography at the Yale School of Art.

Life and work

Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire.^[4]

Between 1979 and 2013, he directed the graduate program in photography at the Yale School of Art,^[5] where his students included Lois Conner, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anna Gaskell, Steve Giovinco, Katy Grannan, An-My Le, Susan Lipper, and Abelardo Morell.

In 2007