Public Talk: Geoffrey Batchen

February 12 5:30 pm

University of New Mexico/Room 102 in the new SMLC-Science & Math Learning Center building, just west of the Clark Hall Chemistry Dept.


Geoffrey Batchen, Beaumont Newhall Visiting Professor of Photography

‘Repetition and Difference: The Dissemination of Photography,’
Sponsored by the UNM Department of Art and Art History with in-kind support from the University of New Mexico Art Museum.


Geoffrey Batchen’s work as a teacher, writer and curator focuses on the history of photography with a particular interest in the way that photography mediates aspects of modern life. This makes photography an especially challenging phenomenon to study and much of his work addresses the methodological task that this study poses for art history. In addition to his expertise in the general theory and historiography of photography, Batchen helped pioneer the study of vernacular photography.


Some of his important publications include: Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (1997), Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (2001), Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (2004), William Henry Fox Talbot (2008), and Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death (2010) and he co-edited Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis (2012). He has also curated exhibitions for museums throughout Europe, North America, Japan, Brazil and Australia. Batchen has taught at the University of California, San Diego, the University of New Mexico, the Graduate Center in New York and currently he is Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Talk is free and open to the public