Phillip Prodger
Curator • Author • Art Historian
Former Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Phillip Prodger is Executive Director of Curatorial Exhibitions in Pasadena, California.
‘I could spend a week in it, happily, or a year. If I could give it six stars, I would...’ 
Time Out, on Eggleston Portraits exhibition 


‘Once again Phillip Prodger has explored photography’s childhood and found there a network of hitherto unexamined meanings and connections that enrich our knowledge not only of the medium, but of science, technology, and culture at large. Fascinating, lucid, and beautifully researched, this book is a major contribution to the history of photography’
Rebecca Solnit, on Darwin’s Camera