Geoffrey Batchen b. 1956

Also known as Geoff Batchen
  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographer and photographic historian, Batchen's work was included in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition 'Mirror with a Memory' in 2000.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Geoffrey Batchen
Also known as Geoff Batchen
Birth date
1956
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • Photographic historian
Active Period
  • c.1985- c.2006
Languages
  • English
Training
  • PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

photographer and photographic historian, graduated PhD at Sydney University, then worked in the USA. His photo-booth sticker portraits c.1999 were included in Helen Ennis’s exhibition Mirror with a Memory (Canberra: NPG, 2000). A good colour slide of him holding up a photograph of Tom Roberts ' {bushranger at … Creek } in front of the location c.1988 is in the Power slide library Sydney University (under Roberts).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Tom Roberts
1856
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
Mirror with a memory: Photographic portraiture in Australia
2000
Exhibition ()
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT