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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Self-portrait, 1905
Born(1882-06-11)June 11, 1882
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedNovember 23, 1966(1966-11-23) (aged 84)
Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, Wales
Known forPhotography

Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.

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George Bernard Shaw Shaw in 1911, by Alvin Langdon Coburn Born (1856-07-26)26 July 1856 Portobello, Dublin, Ireland Died 2 November 1950(1950-11-02) (aged 94)...

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Pictorialism

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increasingly reciprocal. More than a few pictorial photographers, including Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and...

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Camera Work

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Photographs: six by Alvin Langdon Coburn; two by Will A. Cadby; one by W. B. Post. Texts: Charles Caffin on Alvin Langdon Coburn; Sadakichi Hartmann on...

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Abstract photography

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photography without attempting to formalize a specific meaning. Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1916 proposed that an exhibition be organized with the title "Abstract...

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Yone Noguchi

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latest trends in British modern art, spending time with Roger Fry, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Joseph Pennell, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. In April...

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Joseph Conrad

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Conrad in 1916 (photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn)...

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Photogravure

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Camera Work. This publication also featured the photogravures of Alvin Langdon Coburn who was a fine gravure printer and envisioned his photographic work...

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The Linked Ring

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members included James Craig Annan, Walter Benington, Arthur Burchett, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frederick H. Evans, Alfred Horsley Hinton, Frederick Hollyer, Harold...

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Helmut Gernsheim

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amassed a huge collection containing work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Hill & Adamson, William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre. They...

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1882 in art

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1970) June 4 – John Bauer, Swedish illustrator (died 1918) June 11 – Alvin Langdon Coburn, American-born pictorialist photographer (died 1966) June 21 – Rockwell...

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History of photography

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Prokudin-Gorsky using Maxwell's method, 1911 A color portrait of Mark Twain by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908, made by the recently introduced Autochrome process Kodachrome...

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Guilhermina Suggia

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her presence on the concert platform." Photographs of Suggia by Alvin Langdon Coburn are held in the George Eastman House Still Photograph Archive and...

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Clarence Hudson White

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p 165 White (1975, p47 White (1975), p 68 Naef, p 484 Alvin L. Coburn, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer (New York: 1966), p. 88. Cited in White (1979)...

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Vorticism

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included twenty-five 'Vortographs' from 1917 by the photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn that had been first displayed at the Camera Club in London in 1918...

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Flatiron Building

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of beauty?" Besides Stieglitz and Steichen, photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jessie Tarbox Beals took photographs of the building. Painters...

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Ezra Pound

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Four Steps" (recording of Pound). BBC Home Service, 21 June 1958. Hammer, Langdon (February 2007). Lecture on Ezra Pound. Yale University. Sieburth, Richard...

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Equivalents

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"Photography as High Art". New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-12-26. "Alvin Langdon Coburn, Selected Photographs from the Collection of the National Gallery...

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Art of the United Kingdom

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Malcolm Arbuthnot, Lawrence Atkinson, the American photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frederick Etchells, the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Cuthbert...

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New York Edition

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1907 and 1909, with a photogravure frontispiece for each volume by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Two more volumes containing James' unfinished novels, The Ivory...

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Illustrated fiction

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his travel books, but not his mature fiction, to be illustrated. Alvin Langdon Coburn's photographs were used in the New York edition of his works only...

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Karl Struss

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1913, Struss, in collaboration with Edward Dickson, Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and Paul Anderson, began their own publication, Platinum Print....

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