Great Black and White Photographers Part II

Alvin Langdon Coburn was born June 11, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts.  and died November 23, 1996 in Wales. He took his first photo at the age of eight. he is credited for taking the first completely nonobjective photographs. He owned his own studio in New York where he exhibited his own photos. He had membership with the Photo Secession and Linked Ring. The New School of American Pictorial Photography and the Salon of the Linked Ring were two of his exhibits. In 1904, Coburn moved to London to work with famous photographers and create an opportunity for himself to grow as a photographer. He titles his nonobjective images "Vortographs" in association with Vorticists, a group of english artists that used elements of cubism and futurism in their work and enjoyed viewing works of those genres. In the 1920s, Coburn quit his jobs in photography to go on a spiritual journey. He resumed photography in the 1950s.

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