Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

By Geoffrey Batchen

Burning with Desire

By Geoffrey Batchen

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...

William Henry Fox Talbot

By Geoffery Batchen, Geoffrey Batchen

Aurora Australis Photographic Works

By Helen Ennis, Geoffrey Batchen

The 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...

Forget Me Not

By Geoffrey Batchen

Singular Images

By Darsie Alexander, Geoffrey Batchen, Nigel Warburton, David Campany, Martin Parr, Roger Hargreaves, Sheena Wagstaff, Val Williams, Dominic Willsdon, Liz Jobey, Mary Warner Marien

Apparitions

By Geoffrey Batchen

Joan Fontcuberta

By Geoffrey Batchen, Joan Fontcuberta

Emanations

By Geoffrey Batchen

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...