Geoffrey Batchen Books
Burning with Desire
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photo...
Read MoreThe Last Picture Show
By Valie Export, Kathy Halbreich, Barbara Kruger, Christian Boltanski, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Jan Dibbets, Richard Flood, Sarah Charlesworth, Sol Lewitt, Stefan Gronnert, David Weiss, Vito Acconci, Giovanni Anselmo, Bas Jan Ader, Broodthaers Marcel., Dan Graham, Peter Fischli, Mel Bochner, Douglas Fogle
"Traversing the fine line between artists who are photographers and artists who use photography, The Last Picture Show traces the development of Conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice f...
Read MoreEmanations
Since the early 19th century and the invention of photography, artists have been experimenting with various methods for creating photographs without a camera. At once exhaustive and compelling, thi...
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