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]
Themes
- History of Photography
- Portraiture
- Visual Culture
Books
Works by Phillip Prodger
- Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement 2003 · Oxford University Press · book ISBN 978-0195149630
- Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918 2006 · Merrell · book ISBN 978-1858943312
- Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution 2009 · Oxford University Press · book ISBN 978-0195150315
- Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio, and Street 2011 · National Portrait Gallery · book ISBN 978-1855144217
- E.O. Hoppé, The German Work 1925–1938 2015 · Steidl · book ISBN 978-3869309378
- William Eggleston Portraits 2016 · National Portrait Gallery and Yale University Press · book ISBN 978-0300222524
- Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography 2018 · National Portrait Gallery · book ISBN 978-1855147065
- Martin Parr: Only Human 2019 · Phaidon · book ISBN 978-0714879895
- Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait 2021 · Thames & Hudson · book ISBN 978-0500544914
- E.O. Hoppes's Amerika : Modernist Photographs from the 1920's 2007 · W. W. Norton & Company · book · English ISBN 9780393065442
Awards
- 2013 Focus Award Griffin Museum of Photography
- 2017 Rome Fellowship Paul Mellon Centre and the British School at Rome

