Born in 1940 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Tod Papageorge is a photographer who began photographing during the New York City street movement of the 1960s. He began taking photographs in 1962 while he was studying English Literature at the University of New Hampshire. He has also headed the graduate photography department at Yale University since 1979. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. He was also a resident at the American Academy of Rome in 2009.
Tod Papageorge photographed the streets of NYC in the 1960s-70s. While many of his images seem somewhat staged, it is obvious that he pays careful attention to composition in terms of line and placement of subject. His photos have nice contrast and a good range of tonal values. He captures the essence of the lifstyle of living in NYC during that time. The moods of the subjects and the environments surrounding them give us a glimpse of how it must have been to live in NYC in the 1960s-70s. He is successful in capturing the gestures of the people and their every day lives. His motivation seem to be just this, and it is clear that he had an eye for seeing the city of New York and its inhabitants.
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