Geoffrey Batchen
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Geoffrey Batchen | |
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| Born | (1956-11-21) 21 November 1956 (age 68) |
| Occupation(s) | Art historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of the History of Art |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Doctoral advisor | Vicki Kirby |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego University of New Mexico City University of New York Victoria University of Wellington Trinity College, Oxford |
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 and a fellow of Trinity College.[1]
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] a field in which he publishes books and contributes to journals including Journal of Visual Culture,[4] Art History,[5] History of Photography,[6][7] The Art Bulletin,[8] Membrana: Journal of Photography,[9] British Art Studies,[10] Aperture,[11] Trans Asia Photography,[12] World Art,[13] Photographica,[14] and photographies.[15]
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.[16]
Bibliography
- Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (MIT Press, 1997)[17]
- Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (MIT Press, 2001)[17]
- 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)[17]
- 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 2 "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Professor Geoffrey Batchen". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (August 2012). "Australian Ways of Seeing". Journal of Visual Culture. 11 (2): 154–157. doi:10.1177/1470412912444187j. ISSN 1470-4129.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (June 2011). "Lost in Space". Art History. 34 (3): 610–612. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.2011.00829.x.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (2 July 2020). "Natural Relief: Antoine Claudet and the Stereoscopic Daguerreotype". History of Photography. 44 (2–3): 94–110. doi:10.1080/03087298.2021.1885914. ISSN 0308-7298.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (2 January 2021). "Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia 1848–2020: Daniel Palmer and Martyn Jolly. Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2021. 424 pages with 16-page insert, with 218 colour illustrations. Hardcover AUS$59.00, ISBN 978-1-922-54500-8". History of Photography. 45 (1): 101–103. doi:10.1080/03087298.2021.2020476. ISSN 0308-7298.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (2 October 2021). "Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire, by Gabrielle Moser: University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019. 230 pp.; 64 b/w ills. $89.95". The Art Bulletin. 103 (4): 147–149. doi:10.1080/00043079.2021.1957386. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ↑ Chervonik, Olena; Batchen, Geoffrey (2020). "Negative Thinking - A History of the Photographic Negative as a Repressed Other: Conversation with Geoffrey Batchen". Membrana Journal of Photography. 5 (2): 106–110. doi:10.47659/m9.106.int. ISSN 2712-4894.
- ↑ Tagg, John; Tagg, John; Batchen, Geoffrey; Wilson, Siona; Zhou, Dengyan; Edwards, Elizabeth; Bear, Jordan; Maimon, Vered; Sheehi, Stephen; Long, Jonathan; Campany, David; Burgin, Victor; Elcott, Noam; Lee, Young-June; Ribalta, Jorge (28 November 2016). "Exit Theory:Thinking Photography and Thinking History from One Crisis to Another". British Art Studies (4). doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-04/conversation. ISSN 2058-5462.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (July 1994). "Phantasm: Digital Imaging And The Death Of Photography". Aperture. 46. ISSN 0003-6420.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey; Kai, Yoshiaki; Kohara, Masashi (1 May 2011). "Japanese Ambrotypes". Trans Asia Photography. 1 (2). doi:10.1215/215820251_1-2-206. ISSN 2158-2025.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (2 January 2014). "Guest Editorial: Local Modernisms". World Art. 4 (1): 7–15. doi:10.1080/21500894.2014.909369. ISSN 2150-0894.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (2024). "Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé (lithographe, France), Taha-Tahala et Heroua". Photographica. 9. doi:10.4000/12pb1. ISSN 2780-8572.
- ↑ Batchen, Geoffrey (September 2008). "Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn". Photographies 1(2) (Sept 2008), pp. 1 (2): 121–142.
- ↑ "Professor Geoffrey Batchen". www.hoa.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- 1 2 3 "Geoffrey Batchen". MIT Press. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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