Geoffrey Batchen is the author of Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance; Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History; and Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. Besides being an expert in the general theory and historiography of photography, he has helped to pioneer the study of vernacular photography (photographs not intended as art, such as snapshots, commercial photos, and objects like photographic jewelry) and has published extensively on this and other topics in the field. Over the past twenty years, he has been involved in the international art world as a curator and editor, working on exhibitions in Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and in the United States, San Diego, Albuquerque, Seattle, Rochester, and New York. Professor Batchen earned his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, Australia, and prior to coming to The Graduate Center was a faculty member at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.

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