Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.[1]
Gerry Badger (2016)
In 2018 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society.
Life and career
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 matter as "landscapes and accretions of history".[6]
Exhibitions
La poesia dei muri, Italian Cultural Institute, London 2019
The Photographer as Printmaker, for the Arts Council of Great Britain, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1980.[6]
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain 1945–1989,Barbican Arts Centre, London, 1989 (with John Benton-Harris).[6]
Lares Familiares, Sonia Lenzi, for the Archaeological Museum in Naples, 2016 (with Marco De Gemmis)
Publications
Publications by Badger
Photographer as Printmaker: 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking. London: Arts Council of Great Britain and Northampton, England: Belmont Press, 1981. ISBN0-7287-0294-0.
Eugène Atget. London: Macdonald, 1985. ISBN0-356-10852-X. The work of Eugène Atget.
Chris Killip 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN0-7148-4028-9. On Chris Killip.
Eugène Atget 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN0-7148-4049-1. On Eugène Atget.
The Genius of Photography. London: Quadrille, 2007. ISBN1-84400-363-9.
The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays. New York: Aperture, 2010. ISBN978-1-59711-139-3.
It was a Grey Day - Photographs of Berlin. Peperoni Books, 2015. ISBN978-3941825802.
Publications with others
Photo Texts. London: Travelling Light, 1988. ISBN0-906333-22-9. Essays by Badger and Peter Turner.
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic art in Britain 1945–1989. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1989. ISBN0-85331-560-4. Coedited by Badger and John Benton-Harris.
The Photobook: A History Volume I. London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN0-7148-4285-0. With Martin Parr.
The Photobook: A History Volume II. London: Phaidon, 2006. ISBN0-7148-4433-0. With Martin Parr.
The Photobook: A History Volume III. London: Phaidon, 2014. ISBN978-0-714866-77-2. With Martin Parr.
Photobook Phenomenon. Munich: Prestel; CCCB/RM/Fundació Foto Colectania, 2017. A box set of eight booklets of writing, one each by Moritz Neumüller and Lesley Martin, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Martin Parr, Horacio Fernández, Ryuichi Kaneko, Badger ("Propaganda books versus protest books"), Erik Kessels, and Irene de Mendoza and Neumüller. ISBN978-8417047054.
Publications with contributed photographs by Badger
Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward, 2008. ISBN9781853322679. Work from the Arts Council Collection, edited by Grayson Perry.
One Day: 10 Photographers. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2010. ISBN978-3-86828-173-6. A boxed set, edited by Harvey Benge, of ten books of photographs taken on 20 June 2010, each book by one of Badger, Jessica Backhaus, Benge, John Gossage, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Eva Maria Ocherbauer, Martin Parr and Alec Soth.[n 1]
Publications with contributed texts by Badger
Photography, Vol. 2, A New Vision of the World, 1891 - 1940. Milan: Skira, 2012. ISBN9788857210322. Texts by Badger, Clément Chéroux, Sandra S. Phillips, Ulrich Pohlmann and Francesco Zanot.
The Chinese Photobook. New York: Aperture, 2015. ISBN978-1597112284. By Martin Parr and WassinkLundgren. Texts by Badger, Gu Zheng, Stephanie Tung, Raymund Lum and Ruben Lundgren.
Memento Mori. The Lares Familiares of Sonia Lenzi. Naples, Giannini Editore, 2016 ISBN9788874318407
Awards
2018: J Dudley Johnston Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath[9]
Collections
Arts Council Collection, Arts Council, London[2][10]
The publisher's description of this set: "One Day - Kehrer Verlag". Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
References
"Gerry Badger". International Center for Photography. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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.
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