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Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography is the long-awaited collection of essays, reviews, and lectures—some of which have gained a cult following due to online postings—by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography today. As a photographer and the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, Papageorge has shaped the work and thought of generations of artist/photographers at Yale, and, through his critical writings, has earned a reputation as an unusually eloquent and illuminating guide to the work of many of the most important figures in twentieth-century photography.
Among the artists Papageorge discusses with deep critical insight in this essential volume are Atget, Brassaï, Robert Frank (with Walker Evans), Robert Adams, and his close friend, Garry Winogrand. The book also includes texts that examine the more general questions of photography’s relationship to poetry, and how the evolution of the medium’s early technologies led to the twentieth-century creation of the self-conscious photographer/artist. Among the previously unpublished pieces are an unfinished poem in response to Susan Sontag’s On Photography, a profile of Josef Koudelka, and a commencement speech delivered at the Yale School of Art in 2004. Core Curriculum also includes a number of interviews with this esteemed photographer/teacher/author. They range in topic from his own photographic work and background in poetry to his energetic observations on the art of photography. Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1940) began to photograph in 1962, shortly before graduating from the University of New Hampshire; since 1979, he has been the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art. His work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally and collected in two published monographs, American Sports, 1970, or, How We Spent the War in Vietnam (Aperture, 2008) and Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park (2007). He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1970 and 1977, and held the Rome Commission for Photography in 2010. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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