Geoffrey Batchen

Geoffrey Batchen
Born	(1956-11-21) 21 November 1956 (age 69) Melbourne, Australia
Occupations	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	History of photography Global history Material culture
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]

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] 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. "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. Batchen, Geoffrey (August 2012). "Australian Ways of Seeing". Journal of Visual Culture. 11 (2): 154–157. doi:10.1177/1470412912444187j. ISSN 1470-4129.
5. Batchen, Geoffrey (June 2011). "Lost in Space". Art History. 34 (3): 610–612. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.2011.00829.x.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Batchen, Geoffrey (July 1994). "Phantasm: Digital Imaging And The Death Of Photography". Aperture. 46. ISSN 0003-6420.
12. 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.
13. Batchen, Geoffrey (2 January 2014). "Guest Editorial: Local Modernisms". World Art. 4 (1): 7–15. doi:10.1080/21500894.2014.909369. ISSN 2150-0894.
14. Batchen, Geoffrey (2024). "Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé (lithographe, France), Taha-Tahala et Heroua". Photographica. 9. doi:10.4000/12pb1. ISSN 2780-8572.
15. Batchen, Geoffrey (September 2008). "Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn". Photographies 1(2) (Sept 2008), pp. 1 (2): 121–142.
16. "Professor Geoffrey Batchen". www.hoa.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
17. "Geoffrey Batchen". MIT Press. Retrieved 15 February 2021.