Geoffrey BatchenHe is the authour of Forget Me Not: Photography and Rememberancel; Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History; and Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. Other than being an expert in the general theory and histiography of photography, he has helped lead the study of vernacular photography (photographs not intended as art, such as snapshots, commericial photos, etc) and has published extensivley on this and other topics within this field.
Ranging over the past twelve years, he has taken part in the international art world as a guardian and editor (I guess that best describes it), working on exhibitions world wide from Australia to the United Kingdom to New York.
As we is all about photography, and after examining some of his work I say hes really good at it. By far my favourite (and this may be considered stupid by some) is the design and layout of the photo on his book cover of "Each Wild Idea". It's just the way the image has been cropped, the colour tone, the way it has been split in to boxes all just brings its beauty together. What just puts the icing on the piece is the contrasting yellow and the subtle grey used on the font, minimalism at its best.
Links to him for further study:
(this was a paper written on him)
http://www.dutch-eyes.nl/stw/01ABatchenLecture.pdf
(a lecture video)
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/amm/Videos/BatchenMov.html
(his books)
http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Desire-Photography-Geoffrey-Batchen/dp/0262522594
(personal email address)
gbatchen@gc.cuny.edu
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