Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography

Tod Papageorge
9781597111720 / 1597111724       
Core Curriculum

Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography

Tod Papageorge
9781597111720 / 1597111724       
Publisher Aperture 2011
Edition Paperback , 191 pages
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Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography is the long-awaited collection of essays, reviews and lectures 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, and, through his critical writings–some of which have gained a cult following through online postings–he 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 in this essential volume are Eugène 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 artist-photographer. Among the previously unpublished pieces in Core Curriculum are an unfinished poem written in response to Susan Sontag’s On Photography, a profile of Josef Koudelka and a commencement speech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, ranging in topic from his own photographic work and background in poetry to his energetic observations on the art of photography.Tod Papageorge (born 1940) earned his BA in English literature from the University of New Hampshire in 1962, where he began taking photographs during his last semester. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 1979, Papageorge was named Yale University’s Walker Evans Professor of Photography and director of graduate studies in photography, both positions he continues to hold today.

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Book title Core Curriculum
Subtitle Writings on Photography
Photographer Tod Papageorge
ISBN 10 1597111724        / 1-59711-172-4       
ISBN 13 9781597111720 / 978-1-59711-172-0
Publisher Aperture
Publish date Jul 2011
Publish year 2011
Book format Paperback
Pages 191 pages
Dimensions 15,25 x 21,5 cm / 8.7 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

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