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Gerry Badger

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Gerry Badger (2016)

Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.[1]

In 2018, he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society.

Life and career

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Badger was born in 1946 in Northampton. He studied architecture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee), graduating with a diploma in 1969.[2]

Badger is the author of a number of books on photography.

The two volumes then published of The Photobook: A History, which Badger co-wrote with Martin Parr, won the 2006 book award for photography from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.[3] The second volume won a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize).[4] His book The Pleasures of Good Photographs won the International Center for Photography's Infinity Award, Writing category, in 2011.[5]

As a photographer, Badger identifies his usual subject as "landscapes and accretions of history".[6]

Exhibitions

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  • La poesia dei muri, Italian Cultural Institute, London 2019
  • Gerry Badger. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.[6]

Exhibitions curated

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Publications

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Publications by Badger

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  • Photographer as Printmaker: 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking. London: Arts Council of Great Britain and Northampton, England: Belmont Press, 1981. ISBN 0-7287-0294-0.
  • Eugène Atget. London: Macdonald, 1985. ISBN 0-356-10852-X. The work of Eugène Atget.
  • Chris Killip 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4028-9. On Chris Killip.
  • Eugène Atget 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4049-1. On Eugène Atget.
  • Collecting Photography. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003. ISBN 1-84000-726-5.
  • The Genius of Photography. London: Quadrille, 2007. ISBN 1-84400-363-9.
  • The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays. New York: Aperture, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59711-139-3.
  • It was a Grey Day - Photographs of Berlin. Peperoni Books, 2015. ISBN 978-3941825802.
  • Another Country: Documentary Photography Since 1945. Thames & Hudson, 2022. ISBN 978-0500022177.[9]

Publications with others

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Publications with contributed photographs by Badger

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Publications with contributed texts by Badger

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Awards

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Collections

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Notes

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  1. ^ The publisher's description of this set: "One Day - Kehrer Verlag". Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gerry Badger". International Center for Photography. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Potted biography of Badger; in Gerry Badger and John Benton-Harris (ed), Through the looking glass: Photographic art in Britain 1945–1989 (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1989), p.172.
  3. ^ "Past winners – Photography Archived 16 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine", Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Accessed 10 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Die Sieger 2006/2007 Archived 10 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine", Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Accessed 10 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Infinity Awards 2011". International Center for Photography. Retrieved 16 March 2014. Writing: Gerry Badger
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Gerry Badger Archived 6 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine", Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, 2010. Accessed 10 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from Arts Council Collection", Arts Council Collection. Accessed 12 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection". London: The Guardian. 23 April 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  9. ^ Kelly, Philippa (25 May 2022). "Gerry Badger on redefining British documentary photography". British Journal of Photography.
  10. ^ "HARVEY BENGE: A Short History Of Photography". Dewi Lewis Publishing. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  11. ^ "The Royal Photographic Society Awards 2018". www.rps.org. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  12. ^ As is evident from its inclusion in Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection.
  13. ^ "Photograph: The Hall Garden, Wormingford, Essex", Victoria and Albert Museum. Accessed 10 October 2010.