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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Coburn, Alvin Langdon Creator Nationality: British Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1882 - 1966 Biography: Alvin Langdon Coburn British, b. United States, 1882-1966Born in Boston and later naturalized a British citizen, Alvin Langdon Coburn received his first camera at age eight. Ten years later, encouraged by his cousin -- the idiosyncratic, yet highly talented photographer F. Holland Day-Coburn showed his work in a major London exhibition. In 1902-3 he was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and the Linked Ring, two of the most important photographic organizations of their time. His work in the medium continued at a high level for the next quarter century. Coburn was influenced not only by Day, but also by painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the impressionists, and Japanese woodblock prints, championed by his teacher Arthur Wesley Dow and Boston scholar Ernest Fenellosa. His artistic background allowed him to accept modernism as well. Although a founding member of the Pictorial Photographers of America in 1916 with Gertrude Käsebier and Clarence H. White, the following year Coburn made some of the first abstract photographs as a part of the vorticist movement, through which he became associated with Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Coburn produced a wide range of work, both in subject and style. Technically proficient, he excelled at the gravure process, producing large editions of original prints for portfolios and books. Among his collaborators were Henry James and H. G. Wells. Although Coburn abandoned photography from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s, his work continued to be influential, and he took up the medium again near the end of his life. T.W.F. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: United States of America, Boston, MA 6/11/1882 Creator Death Place: Rhos-on -Sea, Wales 10/23/1966 Creator Name-CRT: Alvin Langdon Coburn Title: Grand Canyon Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1912 Creation End Date: 1912 Creation Date: 1912 Object Type: Photographs Classification Term: Photograph Materials and Techniques: platinum print Dimensions: Image: 41cm x 31.4cm, Mounted: 42.1cm x 32.1cm Inscriptions: written in pencil on verso: "Acc 67: /57:29 (COPY A) C658"; (?) 29 copy A "23.74" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 2002.51 Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Style or Period: England, 20th century AMICA ID: CMA_.2002.51 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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