Dr. Caroline Blinder is a writer and academic who specialises in the intersections between photography and literature.
Caroline has a long track record of writing on and interacting with photography as a discipline and exhibition practice. Her specialism lies in 20th and 21st century documentary photography, and the intersections between politics and aesthetics in documentary practice. She is known for her inspiring and engaging teaching, writing and public talks. She regularly reviews for Modernism/modernity and acts as a reader for Palgrave Macmillan and Bloomsbury Press.
Since 2003 Caroline has submitted well over 30 articles, reviews, and chapters to internationally acclaimed journals and publishers, while teaching literature, cinema, photography, and visual arts at Goldsmiths University of London.
In addition, she has given papers and written for the Photographers’ Gallery, London, The BBC, The University of Copenhagen, The Center for Modernism and Art at the University of Turin, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington DC, The Courtauld Institute, The Daniel Blau Gallery, amongst others.
Caroline has published three monographs, one of which is the first survey of image/text relationships in
20th Century American photobooks. While her research has within the last two decades focused on image text relations, she has increasingly focused on the intersections between documentary photography and art history, ranging from the use of the picturesque in contemporary environmental landscape photography to still life conventions in interior photographs from the Depression era.
Born in 1967 in Chicago, USA, Caroline spent most of her childhood years in Copenhagen, Denmark and most of her adult life in London, UK. When the pandemic hit in 2019 she was in the middle of a Terra Foundation Teaching Fellowship in American Art History in Kyoto, Japan. Currently she resides in London, where she is completing a short book on Robert Frank’s Polaroids from the 1970s and working on a longer project together with Dr. Rick Crownshaw on the history of environmentalism and landscape photography in The United States .
