Carolin Görgen

Associate Professor of American Studies

Sorbonne Université

FR

Biographie

Carolin Görgen is Associate Professor of American Studies at Sorbonne University. She obtained her doctorate from the joint PhD program of the University Paris-Diderot and the Ecole du Louvre. Her research explores the history of photography in the American West. She has received support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Huntington Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Amon Carter Museum. From 2016 to 2019, she co-organized the seminar Camera Memoria (LARCA/Paris-Diderot).

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Vienna to San Francisco via Chicago: Camera Club Exchanges in the 1890s

Elitist organizations such as the Linked Ring Brotherhood and the Photo-Secession were not the only channels of photographic exchanges across the Atlantic at the turn of the 20th century. An active network of clubs, publications and events spanned a massively expanded transatlantic cultural space stretching from Vienna to San Francisco.