Contributors

Henri-Alexis Baatsch

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Henri-Alexis Baatsch is a writer and translator who lived in Tokyo in 1981 and again from 1984 to 1986, during which time he wrote an essay on Hokusai, revised for this book. He is the author of several plays and numerous books, including Henri Michaux: Painter and Poetry and Questions of Style.

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Jaklyn Babington

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Jaklyn Babington is the director of a new, multisite contemporary art museum opening in Australia in late 2024. Working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country 2015–2021, she was the senior curator, contemporary art at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). Jaklyn’s recent curatorial projects include Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture and Patricia Piccinini: Every Heart Sings. Notable exhibitions include Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia (2019); Jess Johnson & Simon Ward: Terminus (2018); Angelica Mesiti: Five Video Works (2018) and Hyper Real (2017–2018). In 2017, Jaklyn curated Ramesh Nithiyendran: Mud Men at the NGA.

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Gerry Badger

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Gerry Badger is a writer, photographer, curator, and critic. His previous publications include The Photobook: A History (vols 1–3), with Martin Parr, and The Genius of Photography, which accompanied a BBC television series.  In 2018, he received the Royal Photographic Society’s J Dudley Johnston Medal for achievement in photographic criticism.

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Fiona Bae

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Seoul-raised and London-based, Fiona Bae consults with artists, designers, architects, and cultural institutions through her communications consultancy.

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Jacky Bahbout

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Jacky Bahbout‘s previous children’s books include Make Art with Your Hands and Feet, Funny Face!, and My Fashion Lookbook. She lives in London.

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Paul Bahn

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Paul Bahn is co-author of Thames & Hudson’s hugely influential and bestselling textbook Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, and has also published a variety of popular books, including Easter Island: Earth Island (with John Flenley), Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age (with Adrian Lister), and Images of the Ice Age, widely regarded as the standard introduction to cave art.

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Zainab Bahrani

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Zainab Bahrani is the internationally recognized authority on Mesopotamian art. Born in Iraq, she now teaches at Columbia University and was an advisor to the US government on the protection of cultural heritage during the Iraq War.

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Rowan Bain

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Rowan Bain is a curator at the William Morris Gallery, London.

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Simon Baker

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Simon Baker is director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (MEP). He was formerly senior curator, photography and international art, Tate. Prior to becoming Tate's first curator of photography, he was an associate professor of art history at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on surrealism, photography, and contemporary art.

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Nienke Bakker

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Nienke Bakker is senior curator at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Rakhee Balaram

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Rakhee Balaram is an assistant professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Art and Art History at University at Albany, State University of New York.

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Julia Balchin

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Julia Balchin is Director of Education & Enterprise at the Royal Drawing School in London.

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Ana Balda

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Ana Balda is a fashion curator and lecturer at the University of Navarra, where she teaches fashion illustration and photography. Together with Maria Kublin, she cocurated the exhibition “Tom Kublin for Balenciaga: An Unusual Collaboration” at the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum in 2022.

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Roger Ballen

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Roger Ballen is one of the most important and distinctive art photographers working today. His previous books include Asylum of the Birds, The Theatre of Apparitions, and Ballenesque: Roger Ballen: A Retrospective.

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Lauren Bamford

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Lauren Bamford is a Melbourne-based lifestyle photographer. She regularly contributes to national and international publications including Vogue Living Australia, Kinfolk, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Jonny Banger

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Jonny Banger is an artist, raver, and founder of the cult fashion brand Sports Banger. Founded in 2013 as a space for Jonny to sell his irreverent bootleg T-shirts, Sports Banger quickly grew into a cultural phenomenon. He has now staged four shows at London Fashion Week and worked on official collections with Nike and Tommy Hilfiger.

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Marian Bantjes

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Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer, and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the west coast of Canada, near Vancouver. She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and regularly speaks about her work and thoughts at conferences and events worldwide.

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Dominique Baqué

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Dominique Baqué writes widely on art and photography and is the author of a number of books on those subjects.

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Noma Bar

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Noma Bar is an acclaimed illustrator whose work has appeared in many publications and media outlets, including Time Out London, the BBC, the New York Times, Observer, Economist and Wallpaper*. Born in Israel, Noma Bar is London-based.

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Paul Barbera

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Paul Barbera is an Australian-born, New York-based lifestyle and interiors photographer. He has shot the studios and homes of architects, designers, and artists around the world, from Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma to Jonathan Adler and Kelly Wearstler. Employing a minimalist approach, Barbera shoots in natural light and avoids complicated technical arrangements to capture emotional honesty in his subjects. Regularly commissioned throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe, Paul's work has been published in publications such as Vogue Living, Bon Appétit, the New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, and Elle Decor. He is also the author of Where They Purr: Inspirational Interiors and the Cats Who Call Them Home.

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Louise Baring

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Louise Baring has written for The Economist, the Independent on Sunday, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of several books on photography, including Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque; Martine Franck; Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour; Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens; and Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso.

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Glenn Barkley

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Glenn Barkley is an artist, writer, curator, and gardener based in Sydney, Australia. Barkley was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2008-2014) and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection (1996-2007). His work can be found in most Australian public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia. He is represented by the Mindy Solomon Gallery in the United States.

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