Tod Papageorge was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1940, and began photographing during his last semester of college before graduating with a degree in English literature in 1962. In the 1970s he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants, and in 1979 he was named Walker Evans Professor at the Yale School of Art, where he was also Director of Graduate Studies of Photography until 2013. His work has been widely exhibited and is represented in over 30 major public collections. In 2009 Papageorge was a resident at the American Academy in Rome, and in 2010 he was awarded the Rome Commission in Photography. In 2012 he received the Lucie Award for documentary photography. Steidl has published Papageorge’s Passing Through Eden. Photographs of Central Park (2007), Dr. Blankman’s New York (2018) and the forthcoming War and Peace in New York. Photographs 1966–1971.