# Geoffrey Batchen

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Panel discussion

Geoffrey Batchen, Kitty Hauser and Michael Aird, chaired by Judy Annear

Double displacement: photography and its ghosts

Geoffrey Batchen, professor, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington If all history is ultimately about the present, what kind of historical account of photography can speak to our contemporary moment, a moment when this medium has been incorpora ...

Australia and photography: a reckoning

Professor Geoffrey Batchen, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington Addressing itself to the problem of presenting a nation-based history of photography, this paper points to a surprising range of photographic material that infiltrated Australia’ ...

Talking Ukraine with Olena Chervonik

A conversation between Professor Geoffrey Batchen and Ukrainian-born art history doctoral student Olena Chervonik, focusing on the history and culture of Ukraine. Recorded Friday 04.03.2022 at 17:00

Modern Times: Photography in Britain 1800–1850

Geoffrey Batchen explores the first fifty years of photography in Britain. The announcement of photography’s invention in January 1839, first in Paris and then in London, introduced a new power into British life. This new power—derived from photography’s capacity to automatically capture the ima ...

Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work

Geoffrey Batchen: Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work Abstract: An exclusive focus on surviving photographs has allowed scholars to ignore the degree to which early British photographers ...

11. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (with Helen Miller)

What happens when a French philosopher writes about photography while grieving for his mother? Did you think that was the setup to a Freudian joke? What’s wrong with you? You people make us sick. The wonderful Helen Miller joins us to discuss Roland Barthes’ seminal photography text Camera Lucid ...

Geoffrey Batchen on vernacular photography and appreciating the banal

In this episode, we have the great pleasure to meet with Professor Geoffrey Batchen, an expert in the history of photography. He has taught in his native Australia, the United States, and currently holds a position at Oxford in the UK as a professor of the history of art. He has curated exhibiti ...

Everyday imaging - the analogue and the digital realm

In this episode, we delve into a talk event on Vernacular Photography that took place in November 2023. Our host, Lukas, was one of the speakers and has encapsulated a myriad of ideas, thoughts, and practices surrounding everyday imaging that were presented during the event. The talk was organiz ...

Color Me Muted

"In a good or successful color photograph, the picture's definition or meaning will somehow arise through the use of color” "Photographs have always been convincing lies." -- Joel Sternfeld In this episode, Ward shares stories from his recent road trip to Saskatchewan, including a visit to a ...