Geoffrey Batchen

Geoffrey Batchen (born 21 November 1956, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian art historian. Since 2020, Batchen has been Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford.[1]

Career

Professor

Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, 1991–1996; Associate Professor, Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1996–2001; Professor of Art History: City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, 2002–2010; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2010–2019.[1][2] Much of Batchen's work as a professor and curator focuses on the history of photography.[3]

Curator

His curated exhibitions have been shown at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro; the New England Regional Art Museum in Amridale, Australia; the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; the National Media Museum in Bradford, England; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany; the Izu Photo Museum in Shizuoka, Japan; the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik; the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand; the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, NZ; and the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia.[4]

Bibliography

  • Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (MIT Press, 1997)[5]
  • Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (MIT Press, 2001)[5]
  • Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004)
  • William Henry Fox Talbot (Phaidon Press, France, 2008)
  • What of Shoes: Van Gogh and Art History (E. A. Seemann, 2009)
  • Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida (MIT Press, 2009)[5]
  • Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death (2010)
  • Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph (Prestel Publishing, 2016)
  • Apparitions: Photography and Dissemination (Power Publications, 2018)
  • Negative/Positive: A History of Photography (Routledge, 2020)

References

  1. ^ a b "Batchen, Prof. Geoffrey John McCallum, (born 21 Nov. 1956), Professor of Art History, University of Oxford, since 2020". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u293106. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Geoffrey Batchen | School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History | Victoria University of Wellington". www.wgtn.ac.nz. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Professor Geoffrey Batchen". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Professor Geoffrey Batchen". www.hoa.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Geoffrey Batchen". MIT Press. Retrieved 15 February 2021.


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