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'''Geoffrey Batchen''' (born 1956) work as a teacher, writer and curator that focuses on the history of photography. He is particularly interested in the way that photography mediates every other aspect of modern life, whether we're talking about sex or war, atoms or planets, commerce or art.
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'''Geoffrey Batchen''' (1956) works as a teacher, writer and curator focusing on the history of photography.  
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This makes photography a particularly  challenging phenomenon to study and a lot of Geoff's work addresses the methodological challenge that this study poses for art history. Besides being an expert in the general theory and historiography of photography, Geoff has helped to pioneer the study of vernacular photography (photographs not intended as art, such as snapshots, commercial photos, and objects like photographic jewellery).
 
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Along with Martin Parr and Victor Burgin, Batchen keep his annual series of public lectures about photography at CCP (The Centre for Contemporary Photography) in Melbourne (Australia).
 
  
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==Literature==
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==Works==
 
; Books
 
; Books
 
* ''Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography'',  The MIT Press, 1997.
 
* ''Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography'',  The MIT Press, 1997.
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* [[Media:Geoffrey_Batchen_Each_Wild_Idea_Writing,_Photography,_History_2002.pdf|''Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History'']], The MIT Press, 2001, 2002.
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* [[Media:Geoffrey_Batchen_Each_Wild_Idea_Writing,_Photography,_History_2002.pdf|''Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History'']], MIT Press, 2001.
 
* ''Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance'', Van Gogh Museum & Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
 
* ''Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance'', Van Gogh Museum & Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
 
* ''William Henry Fox Talbot'', Phaidon, 2008.
 
* ''William Henry Fox Talbot'', Phaidon, 2008.
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* ''What of Shoes?: Van Gogh and Art History'', Cologne: Seemann Henschel, 2009.
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* ''What of Shoes?: Van Gogh and Art History'', Cologne: Henschel, 2009.
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* (Editor), ''Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida'', Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009 [http://timothyquigley.net/vcs/barthes-batchen_chap1.pdf chap. 1].
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* editor, ''Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida'', MIT Press, 2009 [http://timothyquigley.net/vcs/barthes-batchen_chap1.pdf chap. 1].
 
* ''Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death'', Japan: Izu PhotoMuseum, 2010.
 
* ''Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death'', Japan: Izu PhotoMuseum, 2010.
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* (Co-editor), ''Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis'', London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
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* co-editor, ''Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis'', London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
  
 
; Articles
 
; Articles
 
* [[Media:Jones_Batchen_et_al_2001_The_Body_and_Technology.pdf|"Carnal Knowledge"]], ''Art Journal'' 60:1 (Spring, 2001), pp 21-23.
 
* [[Media:Jones_Batchen_et_al_2001_The_Body_and_Technology.pdf|"Carnal Knowledge"]], ''Art Journal'' 60:1 (Spring, 2001), pp 21-23.
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* "Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn", ''Photographies'' 1:2 (September 2008), London, pp 121-142.
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* "Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn", ''Photographies'' 1:2 (Sep 2008), London, pp 121-142.
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* "Les Snapshots: L'histoire de l'arte et le tournant ethnographie", ''Etudes Photographique'', No. 22, Paris, 2008, pp 4-37. [http://etudesphotographiques.revues.org/999] (French)
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* "Les Snapshots: L'histoire de l'arte et le tournant ethnographie", ''Etudes Photographique'' 22, Paris, 2008, pp 4-37. [http://etudesphotographiques.revues.org/999] {{fr}}
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* "The Labor of Photography",''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 37:1, 2009, pp 292-296.
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* "The Labor of Photography", ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 37:1, 2009, pp 292-296.
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* [[Media:Batchen_Geoffrey_2009_Seeing_and_Saying.pdf|"Seeing and Saying: A Response to 'Incongruous Images'"]], ''History and Theory'' 48:4, 2009, pp 26-33.
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* [[Media:Batchen_Geoffrey_2009_Seeing_and_Saying.pdf|"Seeing and Saying: A Response to 'Incongruous Images'"]], ''History and Theory'' 48:4 (2009), pp 26-33.
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* [[Media:Batchen_Geoffrey_2011_Lost_in_Space.pdf|"Lost in Space"]], ''Art History'' 34:3, 2011, pp 610-612. Review of ''Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature'' edited by Scott Walden, 2008.
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* [[Media:Batchen_Geoffrey_2011_Lost_in_Space.pdf|"Lost in Space"]], ''Art History'' 34:3 (2011), pp 610-612. Review of ''Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature'' edited by Scott Walden, 2008.
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; Books and Articles on Batchen
 
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* Guy Lane, "William Henry Fox Talbot by Geoffrey Batchen", ''The Art Book'' 16:3, 2009, pp 61-62.
 
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* Mark Durden (ed.), ''Fifty Key Writers on Photography'', Routledge, 2013.
 
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
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* [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/about/staff/geoffrey-batchen Batchen's profile at the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies of University of Wellington]
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* [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/about/staff/geoffrey-batchen Profile at School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies of University of Wellington]
 
* [http://www.ccp.org.au The Centre for Contemporary Photography]
 
* [http://www.ccp.org.au The Centre for Contemporary Photography]
  
 
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Revision as of 17:18, 19 July 2015

Geoffrey Batchen

Geoffrey Batchen (1956) works as a teacher, writer and curator focusing on the history of photography.

Works

Books
  • Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1997.
  • Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History, MIT Press, 2001.
  • Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance, Van Gogh Museum & Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
  • William Henry Fox Talbot, Phaidon, 2008.
  • What of Shoes?: Van Gogh and Art History, Cologne: Henschel, 2009.
  • editor, Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, MIT Press, 2009 chap. 1.
  • Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death, Japan: Izu PhotoMuseum, 2010.
  • co-editor, Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis, London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
Articles
  • "Carnal Knowledge", Art Journal 60:1 (Spring, 2001), pp 21-23.
  • "Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn", Photographies 1:2 (Sep 2008), London, pp 121-142.
  • "Les Snapshots: L'histoire de l'arte et le tournant ethnographie", Etudes Photographique 22, Paris, 2008, pp 4-37. [1] (French)
  • "The Labor of Photography", Victorian Literature and Culture 37:1, 2009, pp 292-296.
  • "Seeing and Saying: A Response to 'Incongruous Images'", History and Theory 48:4 (2009), pp 26-33.
  • "Lost in Space", Art History 34:3 (2011), pp 610-612. Review of Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature edited by Scott Walden, 2008.

Links

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