Alvin Langdon Coburn
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican-British photographer (1882-1966)
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Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American photographer who became a key figure in the development of 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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"Spider-webs", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
"Bernard Shaw", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
"Rodin", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
Blue plaque on his home in Harlech, North Wales
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About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1966 · aged 84
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