Tod Papageorge

Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire United States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s.

[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, Steidl published Passing through Eden, a collection of photographs Papageorge took over 25 years in Central Park.

[6] Also in 2007, Aperture published American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, containing photographs taken during his 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship.

[4] 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.