Writer and critic Geoffrey Batchen will give the keynote address, Remembering Photography, to Saturday's symposium. This event is free and open to the public.
Geoffrey Batchen is a noted writer, curator, and educator whose work focuses on the history of photography and especially the way photography mediates modern life. He has published extensively, in eighteen languages to date, including Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (1997); Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (2001); Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (2004); and Suspending Time: Life, Photography, Death (2010). He has also edited an anthology of essays titled Photography Degree Zero: Reflections of Roland Barthe’s Camera Lucida (2009). Professor Batchen teaches in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and was formerly Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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