Tod Papageorge is an AMerican photographer and teacher; he starting photography in the streets of New York City in the sixties. Between 1979 and 2013, he directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art.
He is better known for his work at the famous New York City club Studio 54 during its short lifespan, in the late seventies and early eighties. This body of work was published by Stanley / Barker in 2014 as "Studio 54".
Papageorge has also published, among other titles, "Passing through Eden" (Steidl, 2007), "Dr Blankman's New York" (Steidl, 2018) and "On the Acropolis" (Stanley / Barker, 2019).
© Photography by Pete Boyd (The Photographer's Gallery, 2014)
Presentation by Steidl: " « In Dr. Blankman's New York, I hope you'll find a persuasive account of what it meant for me to be free with a Leica in the streets of my then newly-adopted home of Manhattan, a record drawn in the saturated colors of Kodachrome film, where even the heavy shadows pouring into the backdrop-avenues of the pictures seem full of...
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " In 1983- 84 Tod Papageorge spent a month each summer on the Acropolis in Athens, producing a body of work that seems lost in time, fusing the ancient with the modern.« I stayed at a nice hotel, the Zafolia, five minutes from the Acropolis, where every surface in my room was marble, and where I did laps in the pool...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Studio 54 brings together a collection of photographs by renowned photographer, Tod Papageorge, taken in the late 1970s. They are a filled with all the decadency, vibrancy and glamour of New York’s most infamous club. In Papageorge’s own words, «The 66 photographs in this book were made between 1978-80 in Studio 54, a...