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Alvin Langdon Coburn
American
1882–1966
About the Artist
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Alvin Langdon Coburn. Self-Portrait. 1905. Platinum print, 9 3/8 x 6 5/16" (23.8 x 16 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Miss Mina Turner
Meeting Points
- Cultural Hubs New York
- Schools Levy Gallery, 1931–49 Royal Photo Society, 1853–present
- Publications Vogue, 1892–1949 Camera Work, 1903–17 Photography, 1839–1937, 1937
Artist Chronology
| June 11, 1882 |
Born
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Boston |
| 1890 |
Visits his uncle, who gives him a 4 x 5" Kodak camera
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Los Angeles |
| 1898 |
Meets photographer F. Holland Day, a distant cousin
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Boston |
| 1900 |
The New School of American Photography, organized by F. Holland Day, at the Royal Photographic Society
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen
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London |
| 1901 |
Travels to France, Switzerland, and Germany
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France Germany Switzerland |
| 1902–03 |
Studies at Arthur Wesley Dow Summer School of Art
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New York |
| 1903 |
Exhibition at Camera Club of New York
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York |
| November 1903 |
Becomes a full member of the Linked Ring
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London |
| 1904 |
Enrolls at the Frank Brangwyn Art School
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London |
| 1905 |
Makes photographs in Edinburgh based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
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Edinburgh |
| 1906 |
Takes classes in photogravure at the London County Council School of Photo-Engraving
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London |
| 1906 |
Solo exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1907 |
Maurice Maeterlinck publishes The Intelligence of Flowers, which includes four photogravures by Coburn
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Albany |
| 1907 |
Shortly after the autochrome process is introduced, Coburn uses it to photograph the collection of Charles Lang Freer
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Detroit |
| 1907 |
Exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York |
| Summer 1908 |
Coburn makes photographs for The Studio's special publication on color photography
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1909 |
Exhibition at 291 gallery
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York |
| 1909 |
Publishes London
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York London |
| 1909–10 |
Anne Brigman travels to New York, where she visits Alfred Stieglitz and meets Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen, and Gertrude Käsebier
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New York |
| 1910 |
Publishes New York
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York London |
| November 3–December 1, 1910 |
International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, at Albright Art Gallery
Organizer: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alfred Stieglitz
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Buffalo |
| June 1911–January 1912 |
Photographs at Yosemite and the Grand Canyon
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Grand Canyon Yosemite National Park |
| 1913 |
Solo exhibition featuring the New York from Its Pinnacles series at Goupil Gallery
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1913 |
Publishes Men of Mark
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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New York London |
| 1914 |
Assists Max Weber with the publication of Cubist Poems
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1914 |
Old Masters of Photography at the Albright Art Gallery
Organizer: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Buffalo |
| June 1916 |
Walter Latimer's works are published as illustrations of student photography to accompany an article by Alvin Langdon Coburn in the magazine Photo-Graphic Art
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Walter R. Latimer, Sr.
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New York |
| January 1917 |
Makes his first vortographs
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London |
| 1917 |
Exhibition of vortographs at the London Camera Club
Participant: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1919 |
Becomes a Freemason
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London |
| 1922 |
Publishes More Men of Mark
Contributor: Alvin Langdon Coburn
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London |
| 1928 |
Gives his collection of photographs to the Royal Photographic Society
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London |
| 1928–66 |
Lives in North Wales
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Wales |
| March 17–April 18, 1937 |
Photography: 1839–1937, organized by Beaumont Newhall, at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl, Francis Bruguière, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Walker Evans, Florence Henri, André Kertész, George Platt Lynes, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkácsi, Roger Parry, George H. Seeley, Peter Sekaer, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Maurice Tabard, Edward Weston, Jacques-André Boiffard, Robert Demachy
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New York |
| June 10–August 31, 1947 |
Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
| September 29–November 28, 1948 |
Photo Secession (American Photography 1902–1910) at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Anne W. Brigman, Alvin Langdon Coburn, George H. Seeley, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz
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New York |
| November 23, 1966 |
Dies
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Rhos-on-Sea |
