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.
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]
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