Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an expert in the general theory and historiography of photography who has helped to pioneer the study of vernacular photography. Batchen has published extensively, in twenty-three languages to date, and has curated numerous exhibitions around the world, the most recent being Still Looking: Peter McLeavey and the Last Photograph (Adam Art Gallery, 2018) and Live from the Moon ({Suite}, 2019). He is the author of Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (MIT Press, 1997); Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (MIT Press, 2001); Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004); William Henry Fox Talbot (Phaidon, 2008); What of Shoes: Van Gogh and Art History (Seemann Henschel, 2009); Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death (Izu Photo Museum, 2010); Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph (Prestel, 2016); and Obraz a diseminace: Za novou historii pro fotografii (NAMU, 2016). A new collection of his essays, 更多的疯狂念头 [More Wild Ideas: History, Photography, Writing], appeared in Chinese in 2017. He has also edited Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida (MIT Press, 2009) and co-edited Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis (Reaction, 2012). His latest book is Apparitions: Photography and Dissemination (Power Publications, 2018). In January 2020, Batchen will be taking up the Professorship of Art History at Oxford University in the UK.
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