(b Portsmouth, NH, 1 Aug 1940). American photographer. He took up photography after graduating from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, in 1962. His black-and-white, snapshot-like photographs treat a wide range of urban and social themes, with an emphasis upon social interaction in private and public contexts. His series of photographs of Central Park (1978–81) includes mothers with their children, a businessman enjoying his lunch, a pair of old women at opposite ends of a park bench and a fashionable dandy napping on the grass before a great bed of tulips. While favouring the immediacy of a 35 mm camera for his candid images, in his landscapes Papageorge generally sought a clarity of image with a 6*9 cm camera.