Phillip Prodger
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Phillip Prodger (born 16 October 1967) is a museum professional, curator, author, and art historian. He is the Senior Research Scholar at the
Education
Phillip Prodger received his bachelor's degree at Williams College in 1989 and his master's degree at Stanford University in 1995. In 2000, Prodger received his Ph.D. in history of art from University of Cambridge. He attended secondary school in Hong Kong at Hong Kong International School from 1982-1985.
Career
After a brief tenure as a lecturer at the
In 2017, Prodger was given the Rome Award from the Paul Mellon Centre and the British School at Rome. In 2013, he received a Focus Award[3] for contributions to the appreciation and understanding of photography. In 2007, he was named the Lisette Model and Joseph G. Blum Fellow at the National Gallery of Canada.
Research
Prodger's primary area of expertise is in European and American art from the nineteenth century to the present. He has published extensively on topics in the history of photography and art/science interactions. Much of his work centers on the rise of photographic vision and its effect on modern logic systems.
Prodger has devoted much research to the so-called ‘second invention’ of photography, when
Prodger has also written extensively about Modern photography. He is the author of a series, so far including three books (one with Terence Pepper), on Edwardian photographer
In contemporary art, Prodger has written monographs on William Eggleston, Martin Parr, and Jerry Uelsmann. He has also written short texts for monographs by Anderson & Low, Katharine Cooper, Harold Feinstein, Sharon Harper, Anna Kuperberg, Yann Mingard, Suzanne Opton, Paul Outerbridge, Anne Rearick, and Joni Sternbach.
In 2018, he was curator and primary author of an exhibition and catalogue on early Chinese photography produced in association with Tsinghua University and the Loewentheil Collection[5]
Publications
Books and catalogues
Martin Parr: Only Human, London: Phaidon, 2019.
E. O. Hoppé: The English, (forthcoming), Gottingen: Steidl, 2019.
The Real Me: Understanding Photo Portraiture in the 21st Century, (forthcoming), London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Vision and Reflection: Photographs of 19th Century China from the Loewentheil Collection, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2018.
100 Photographs (editor and introduction), London: National Portrait Gallery, 2018.
Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography. Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Clementina Hawarden, and Oscar Rejlander, London: National Portrait Gallery, 2018.
William Eggleston Portraits, London: National Portrait Gallery and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
E.O. Hoppé, The German Work 1925–1938, Gottingen: Steidl, 2015.
Ansel Adams: At the Water’s Edge, Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2012.
Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism, New York and London: Merrell Publishers, 2011.
Ernst Haas: Color Correction, Gottingen: Steidl, 2011.
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio, and Street, London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011.
The Mind’s Eye: Fifty Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann, San Francisco: ModernBook, 2010.
Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from California and Mexico, 1948-55, Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli, 2009.
Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution, New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Hoppé’s Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., April 2007.
Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918, London and New York: Merrell, 2006.
Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Illustrations of Human and Animal Expression from the Collection of Charles Darwin, Lewiston, New York and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
External links
Interview, “Fleeting Truths: Thoughts on Portrait Photography,” link
Interview, “What Makes a Great Portrait Photograph?” link
Interview, “Much More than a Muse,” NPR link
References
- ^ "Phillip Prodger: Head of Photographs Collection". National Portrait Gallery, London.
- ^ "Phillip Prodger Appointed Curator of Photography At National Portrait Gallery". Art Lyst.
- ^ "Focus Awards Archive by Year". Griffin Museum of Photography.
- ISBN 978-0195149630.
- ^ "Lowentheil China Photography Collection". Lowentheil China Photography Collection.