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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.
Jun 7, 2024 · Alvin Langdon Coburn (born June 11, 1882, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 23, 1966, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, Wales) was an American-born British photographer and the maker of the first completely nonobjective photographs.
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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.
Alvin Langdon Coburn's work traces photography's transition from Pictorialism to modernism at the turn of the century. Born in Boston, he was given his first camera at the age of eight, but did not photograph seriously until he met F. Holland Day in 1898.
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.
Sep 19, 2015 · Learn about the life and work of Alvin Langdon Coburn, a master photographer who bridged Pictorialism and Modernism. See his portraits, views, and abstract Vortographs from the Eastman Museum collection and other sources.
An eighth-birthday gift of a Kodak camera launched Alvin Langdon Coburn's photographic career. At about age sixteen, he came under the tutelage of his cousin, the publisher and photographer F. Holland Day; Coburn in turn taught Day how to print his own images and assisted him in hanging the landmark exhibition, "The New School of American ...
