Philip TRAGER
Philip Trager (born 1935) is an American art photographer, known principally for his photographs of architecture and of modern dance. As of 2015, 11 monographs of his photography have been published by houses such as New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown; Wesleyan University Press; and Steidl.
The transfer of Trager's archive of photographic prints, negatives, and marked proofs to the Library of Congress began in 2006. As C. Ford Peatross — founding director and curator for the Library of Congress's Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering — remarked: "[Trager's] careful eye, his sensitivity to the slightest nuances of light and atmosphere and his finely honed understanding of structure have allowed him to capture—and us to see anew—subjects ranging from the gritty vernacular of American cities to the works of Palladio and the monuments of Paris, from the clouds framing and defining landscapes to frozen moments in the drama of the dance." Once the transfer of Trager's work is complete, “this exceptional trove of artistic images will be available to scholars, photographers, and the public for generations to come.”
Publications
2015 - New York in the 1970s. Foreword by Stephen C. Pinson. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
2006 - Philip Trager [retrospective]. Essays by Barbara L. Michaels, Norton Owen, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, and John Wood; interview by Stephanie Wiles. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
2005 - Faces. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
2000 - Changing Paris: A Tour along the Seine. Architectural commentary by Thomas Mellins; foreword by Pierre Borhan; introduction by Diane Johnson. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions
1996 - Persephone. Poems by Eavan Boland and Rita Dove; text by Ralph Lemon and Andrew Szegedy-Maszak. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, with New England Foundation for the Arts
1992 - Dancers. Foreword by Bill T. Jones; essays by Joan Acocella and David Freedberg; afterword by Mark Morris. Boston: Bulfinch Press
1986 - The Villas of Palladio. Text by Vincent Scully; foreword by Renato Cevese; introduction by Michael Graves. Boston: New York Graphic Society
1982 - Wesleyan Photographs. Foreword by Paul Horgan; text by Vincent Scully, Eve Blau, and Samuel M. Green II. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
1980 - Philip Trager: New York. Foreword by Louis Auchincloss. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
1977 - Photographs of Architecture. Introduction by Samuel M. Green II. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
1972 - Echoes of Silence. Danbury, CT: Scroll Press
Collections
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland (Baltimore)
Baltimore Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, Québec)
Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ)
Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut (Storrs)
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography (Rochester, NY)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
National Building Museum (Washington, DC)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Washington D.C.)
National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution; Washington, DC)
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phillips Collection (Washington, DC)
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA)
Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT)
Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris)
Galeries Fnac (Paris)
Musée Carnavalet (Paris)
Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne (Switzerland)
