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The California Camera Club - (The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West) by Carolin Görgen (Hardcover)

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  • With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century.
  • Author(s): Carolin Görgen
  • 312 Pages
  • Art, American
  • Series Name: The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West

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About the Book



Though instrumental in promoting individual photographers' careers--as in the case of Ansel Adams--the club's more significant contribution emerged in its collaborative nature and outdoor efforts. In telling its story, Görgen offers a new view of the history of photography and the collective composition of an enduring picture of the American West.



Book Synopsis



With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In The California Camera Club, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community--and reveals its critical but little-known role in defining the popular image of California, and the American West generally, for posterity.

At a time when hand-held cameras were multiplying and San Francisco was becoming the main venue for aspiring western photographers, the unknown but committed practitioners of the California Camera Club collectively pictured California as the dominant symbol of the American West. Detached from the cultural hubs of the East Coast, club members were instead closely tied to an influential circle of western artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and environmentalists, all of whom were determined to promote California through the increasingly accessible medium of photography. Members deployed new technology and worked outdoors, producing an unprecedented number of images--in prints, exhibitions, magazines, and lantern slides--that would forever inform our understanding of California photography as an outdoor practice rooted in the western environment. Görgen begins her account with the first photo-exhibitions of the 1880s and the formation of a vibrant exchange network of photo excursionists. She then explores how the club survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire to become a crucial source of support for a new, now well-known, generation of photographers by the time of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

Though instrumental in promoting individual photographers' careers--as in the case of Ansel Adams--the club's more significant contribution emerged in its collaborative nature and outdoor efforts. In telling its story, Görgen offers a new view of the history of photography and the collective composition of an enduring picture of the American West.



Review Quotes




"Görgen undertakes a truly herculean task and successfully captures the lost history of an important, but understudied, photographic collective."--Christine Hult-Lewis, Curator of the Pictorial Collection at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley


"Important and timely, The California Camera Club accomplishes the difficult task of exploring how photographs look now as well as how they functioned at the moment they were created, bridging fields we sometimes think of as separate. With the generous sharing of little-known archival sources, Görgen's contribution will serve multiple audiences."--Lauren Kroiz, author of Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era


Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 8.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 312
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Carolin Görgen
Language: English
Street Date: October 28, 2025
TCIN: 1004320375
UPC: 9780806196039
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-1837
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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