Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American photographer who became a key figure in the development of pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewp
Self-portrait, 1905
"Spider-webs", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
"Bernard Shaw", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
"Rodin", by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 21, 1908
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His work
Alvin Langdon Coburn
…philanthropist who was involved in Theosophy and Freemasonry. This started Coburn on a path of studying mysticism, metaphysical ideals and Druidism. He met Ezra Pound, who introduced him to the short-lived Vorticism movement in Britain. Its new visual aesthetics intrigued Coburn and, provoked by his growing spiritual…
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s
In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), c. 1921