ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
(American, 1882 - 1966)
Alvin Coburn (aka “The Hustler”) was an important member of Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secessionist group and of the Linked Ring in Britain, whose aim it was “to produce works of poetic beauty through photography” (Frizot, 306). He is best known for his photographs of cities, London (1909) and New York (1910), and for his portraits of famous men, Men of Mark (1913) and More Men of Mark (1922), all containing his own hand-pulled photogravures. “Coburn took many soft-focus cityscapes, some from rooftops that created distorted perspectives and emphasized the abstract patterns of city streets” (McDarrah, 85). “He made narrow vertical pictures to accommodate the upward thrust of the skyscraper; and he constantly flattened the picture-space, almost like a Cubist, using long lenses to layer the city’s.
Subject: The Cloud, Yosemite, 1911
ONE of only 2000 Copies
for Friends of The George Eastman House
Date Of Print: 1962
Print/Plate Publisher:
The George Eastman House
Sheet Size Inches: 11 x 14 inches
Condition Grade: Very
Fine ++