Phillip Prodger
author
Phillip Prodger is a British-born museum professional, curator of works on paper, author, and art historian. He has held significant roles in major institutions, including serving as the Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London (2014–2018) and as a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. Prodger's research focuses on prints, drawings, and photographs, with a particular expertise in European and American photography from the nineteenth century to the present. He is recognized for his work on the 'instantaneous photography movement,' facial expression in portraiture, and the intersection of photography with other media. He has authored numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues on figures such as Ansel Adams, Ernst Haas, and Emil Otto Hoppé.[2,3]
- History of Photography
- Portraiture
- Visual Culture
Books
Works by Phillip Prodger
- 2003 Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
- 2006 Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918
- 2009 Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
- 2011 Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio, and Street
- 2015 E.O. Hoppé, The German Work 1925–1938
- 2016 William Eggleston Portraits
- 2018 Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography
- 2019 Martin Parr: Only Human
- 2021 Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait
- 2007 E.O. Hoppes's Amerika : Modernist Photographs from the 1920's
Awards
- 2013 Focus Award
- 2017 Rome Fellowship