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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Albuquerque/ *Australia 1956
My qualifications include a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Arts, with First Class Honors in Art History, from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the University of Sydney.
Over the past twenty years I have been very involved in the Australian and international art worlds. I have curated a number of art exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, San Diego, Albuquerque, New York, and Australia. In 1983 I was Curator and then Acting Director of the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, New South Wales. In 1983-84 I was a Rubinstein Fellow with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
I am widely published; my writing has featured in a number of journals, books and exhibition catalogues and been translated into Chinese, German, Russian, Danish, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese and Korean.
In 1985-86 I worked as Editor of the Australian Centre for Photography's national journal of photography criticism Photofile, and I recently Guest Edited an issue of History of Photography (Autumn 2000). I have given public lectures in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Austria, Hong Kong and the United States. I have taught modern art in a number of tertiary institutions in Australia and the U.S.
In August 1996 I took up my current position as Associate Professor of the History of Photography in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. My first book, "Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography", was published by The MIT Press in 1997. "Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History" was published by the same press in 2001. I am also currently preparing a reader in electronic imaging for MIT Press, a short book on William Henry Fox Talbot for Phaidon, and an exhibition and catalogue for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on photography and memory.
Geoffrey Batchen
Albuquerque
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