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Introduction
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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Introduction
Coburn emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1912 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1932. Coburn was a founding member of the Photo Secession, New York City, in 1902, and of the Pictorial Photographers of America in 1916. Coburn was associated with the Linked Ring in 1903, and the Royal Photographic Society in the United Kingdom. American photographer, became a naturalized British citizen.
Nationalities
British, American, English
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Photographer
Names
Alvin Langdon Coburn, A. L. Coburn, Alvin Coburn Langdon
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Works

27 works online

Exhibitions

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Publications

  • Photography at MoMA: 1840–1920 Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, 2017 Hardcover, 376 pages
  • The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel Quentin Bajac, 2016 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 152 pages
  • OBJECT:PHOTO. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909-1949 Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, Maria Morris Hambourg, 2014 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 400 pages
  • Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art Leah Dickerman, 2012 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 376 pages
  • Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West Eva Respini, 2009 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 168 pages
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