Talk:Gerry Badger

Blue Sky, MoMA, BnF, etc

This stub depends to a rather dangerous degree on one web page, this one. (It's similar to, but a bit newer than, what's written about Badger at Prix Pictet, and elsewhere. Perhaps these sites copy each other or perhaps they reproduce a short text that Badger sends them.) Anyway, it tells us that:

• The Photobook "won the Deutsche Fotobuch Preis in 2006"
• "Gerry Badger’s work is in a number of public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, London; the Bibiliothèque Nationale, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York"

However:

• Google gives an extraordinarily small number of hits for the string "Deutsche Fotobuch Preis". (Simply, it only comes up in the context of the Badger/Parr Photobook.)
• The V&A appears to have just one photograph by Badger.
• MoMA (NY) appears to catalogue all its holdings. It lists material by Clarence Badger but nothing by any Gerry/Gerald Badger.
• BnF does not catalogue all its holdings, but I can't find any photograph by Badger in its OPAC.

This stub -- let alone any real article that derives from it -- needs better sourcing. And the source should be demonstrably independent of the short text that mentions, without elaborating on, the claim that Badger's work is at MoMA.

Incidentally, I hope I don't sound dismissive about Badger. I've read a lot of his work and it's excellent. But credit where it's verifiably due. -- Hoary (talk) 01:47, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

The Deutscher Fotobuchpreis comes up here. Have not added it yet.--Artiquities (talk) 03:35, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Well done! And my bad: I should have remembered that German concatenates nouns without spacing them. Do please add it; I've had my fill of WP for this morning and have to attend to "real life", away from this computer screen. -- Hoary (talk) 03:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)