Gerry Badger

Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, and photographic critic based in London. He has written extensively for the photographic press, and curated a number of exhibitions, including “The Photographer as Printmaker” (1980) for the Arts Council of Great Britain, and “Through the Looking Glass: Post-war British Photography” (1989) for the Barbican Arts Centre in London. His own work is in a number of public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Arts Council Collection, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. He has written introductory essays to many photographic monographs, including those of such photographers as Stephen Shore, John Gossage, Martin Parr, and Chris Killip. Among his books are Collecting Photography and The Genius of Photography. With Martin Parr, Badger wrote The Photobook: A History (2 volumes, 2004 and 2006), a classic that won the Kraszna Krausz Prize in 2007.

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