Alvin Langdon Coburn
USA (1882—1966)
American born Coburn discovered his love for photography at very early age, thanks to a Kodak camera as birthday gift. His talent was immediately recognised by his contemporary well known photographers. In 1902 at the age of 20, Coburn had already opened his studio in New York and would become soon after a member of Photo Secession and The Linked Ring, both influential associations of photographers highly regarded in US and in UK. He moved to London in 1912 and created his Vortographs, inspired by the Vorticism and his new interest in abstraction. In these years he also discovered mysticism, metaphysics and Druidism. By 1930 he decided to abandon photography and donated most of his films. He was awarded by the Royal Photographic Society. He spent the rest of his life in Wales, until his death in 1966.
Mark Twain
Photogravure / 16.3 x 19.6 cm / 1908 (1962)
G.K. Chesterton
Photogravure / 16.3 x 19.2 cm / 1904 (1962)
Portland Place, London
Photogravure / 19.6 x 16.2 cm / 1906 (1962)
Long Beach, California
Photogravure / 15.4 x 19.6 cm / 1911 (1962)
Vortograph
Photogravure / 16.3 x 19.6 cm / 1917 (1962)
Court of the hotel
Photogravure / 16.3 x 19.6 cm / 1906 (1962)
The octopus, New York
Photogravure / 14.8 x 19.5 cm / 1912 (1962)
Pillars of smoke, Pittsburgh
Photogravure / 19.5 x 14.8 cm / 1910 (1962)
Roofs, Paris
Photogravure / 19.5 x 15.1 cm / 1913 (1962)
Arnold Dolmetsch
Photogravure / 16.4 x 19.6 cm / 1916 (1962)
House of a thousand windows
Photogravure / 16.3 x 19.5 cm / 1912 (1962)
Station roofs, Pittsburgh
Photogravure / 19.5 x 14.8 cm / 1910 (1962)
The cloud, Yosemite
Photogravure / 12.3 x 18.3 cm / 1911 (1962)
The Great Temple, Grand Canyon
Photogravure / 19.5 x 15.3 cm / 1911 (1962)
London Bridge
Photogravure / 13.6 x 17.4 cm / 1905 (1962)
William Butler Yeats
Photogravure / 13.2 x 17.3 cm / 1908 (1962)