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Alvin Langdon Coburn

 
Alvin Langdon Coburn

19th-20th century American and British photographer
(Boston, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1966, Rhos-on-Sea, Wales)

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.

2 objects

A Canal in Rotterdam

1908
photogravure
Museum Purchase
1986.11
 

Clouds

1911
photogravure
Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
2011.69.108