Geoffrey Batchen

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]

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]

• 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)