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Badger nasceu em 1946 em Northampton. Ele estudou arquitetura em Duncan de Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee), formando -se com um diploma em 1969.
Badger é o autor de vários livros sobre fotografia.
Os dois volumes então publicaram o Photobook: A History, que Badger co-escreveu com Martin Parr, ganhou o Prêmio de Livro de 2006 por fotografia da Fundação Kraszna-Krausz. O segundo volume ganhou um Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (prêmio alemão de fotografia). Seu livro, The Praeasures of Good Photografs, ganhou o Prêmio Infinito do Centro Internacional de Fotografia, categoria de redação, em 2011.
Como fotógrafo, Badger identifica seu assunto habitual como "paisagens e acreções da história".
Exposições
La poesia dei muri, Italian Cultural Institute, London 2019Gerry Badger. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1975.British Art, 1940–1980, Hayward Gallery, London, 1980.Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1988–1989.The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, 2004.Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK, 2008 and travelled to Harris Museum, Preston, 2008; DLI Museum and Art Gallery, Durham, 2008–2009; Southampton City Art Gallery, 2009; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2009; Scarborough Art Gallery, 2009); Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2009; and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 2009–2010. Postwar British paintings, sculpture and photography curated by Grayson Perry from the Arts Council Collection.
Exposições com curadoria
The Photographer as Printmaker, for the Arts Council of Great Britain, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1980.Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain 1945–1989, Barbican Arts Centre, London, 1989 (with John Benton-Harris).Lares Familiares, Sonia Lenzi, for the Archaeological Museum in Naples, 2016 (with Marco De Gemmis)
Publicações
Publicações de Badger
Photographer as Printmaker: 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking. London: Arts Council of Great Britain and Northampton, England: Belmont Press, 1981. ISBN 0-7287-0294-0.Eugène Atget. London: Macdonald, 1985. ISBN 0-356-10852-X. The work of Eugène Atget.Chris Killip 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4028-9. On Chris Killip.Eugène Atget 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4049-1. On Eugène Atget.Collecting Photography. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003. ISBN 1-84000-726-5.The Genius of Photography. London: Quadrille, 2007. ISBN 1-84400-363-9.The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays. New York: Aperture, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59711-139-3.It was a Grey Day - Photographs of Berlin. Peperoni Books, 2015. ISBN 978-3941825802.
Publicações com outras pessoas
Photo Texts. London: Travelling Light, 1988. ISBN 0-906333-22-9. Essays by Badger and Peter Turner.Through the Looking Glass: Photographic art in Britain 1945–1989. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1989. ISBN 0-85331-560-4. Coedited by Badger and John Benton-Harris.The Photobook: A History Volume I. London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN 0-7148-4285-0. With Martin Parr.The Photobook: A History Volume II. London: Phaidon, 2006. ISBN 0-7148-4433-0. With Martin Parr.The Photobook: A History Volume III. London: Phaidon, 2014. ISBN 978-0-714866-77-2. 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. ISBN 978-8417047054.
Publicações com fotografias contribuídas por texugo
Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry Selects from the Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward, 2008. ISBN 9781853322679. Work from the Arts Council Collection, edited by Grayson Perry.One Day: 10 Photographers. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86828-173-6. 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.
Publicações com textos contribuídos por texugo
Photography, Vol. 2, A New Vision of the World, 1891 - 1940. Milan: Skira, 2012. ISBN 9788857210322. Texts by Badger, Clément Chéroux, Sandra S. Phillips, Ulrich Pohlmann and Francesco Zanot.The Chinese Photobook. New York: Aperture, 2015. ISBN 978-1597112284. 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 ISBN 9788874318407
Prêmios
2018: J Dudley Johnston Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Coleções
Arts Council Collection, Arts Council, LondonBibliothèque nationale de France, ParisVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYThe Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
