Geoffrey Batchen
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford.
Joel Sternfeld has been photographing the American landscape for nearly half a century. When his seminal book, American Prospects, was first published in 1987, it was immediately recognized as a significant achievement. On the occasion of American Prospects going on view at the Bruce Museum, Sternfeld joined art historian Geoffrey Batchen to discuss what it means to travel with the seasons, how he thinks about color, and the influence of Paul Klee on his sense of aesthetics.
Whether as a disputed term within political debates or as a photographic quality mortally threatened by new technologies, truth has become a central flashpoint in our current cultural moment. Does truth have a future? If so, what will that truth look like?
Picture a history of photography freed from the tyranny of the photograph.