Books by Geoffrey Batchen

This book features 24 of William Henry Fox Talbot's experimental prints. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artefacts, an accompanying essay illustrated with comparative images places these photographs in a broad historical context, revealing what relevance Talbot's experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of photography.

British conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. Using antique travel postcards, famous movie starlet headshots from the 1940s, and old movie stills, Stezaker creates a world full of mystery and humor in each artwork. Critic David Campany described Stezaker as drawn to that very sli