GEOFFREY BATCHEN is a photographic historian who has published numerous works on the subject and curated exhibitions around the world. He is currently a professor at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
..".all the pictures are dazzling, explosive and liberating to the
medium in much the same way that the birth of abstraction freed
painting from its earthly bounds."
-The New York Times "
Opening with a 45-page essay by Batchen, the catalogue is ambitious
in both scope and breadth of coverage, providing informed access to
every generation of photographers from inventors Nicephore Niepce
(1765-1833) and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77) onward. In
addition to demonstrating the range of this interesting aspect of
the medium, these images happen to be beautiful, so the catalogue
is a pleasure to study. Summing up: â â â Highly Recommended."
-Choice
"Batchen's book provides a fascinating account of developments in
science at the turn of the 20th century in the use of cameraless
photography to uncover the inner life of things."
-The Big Idea, New Zealand
"Ultimately, the success of this publication rests on two closely
interwoven components, both well resolved. On the one hand, Batchen
has assembled a rich and diverse sampling of representative images,
each testifying in its way to the unique creative and expressive
potential of the cameraless photograph. On the other hand, his
detailed probing of these images, the context of their production,
and their significance vis-a-vis lens-based photographs makes it
increasingly difficult to continue treating them 'as second-class
citizens' (p. 5) within the larger history of photography."
-Ciel Variable
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