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
The Linked Ring was a British photographic society created to propose and defend photography as being just as much an art as it was a science. Members dedicated to the craft looked for new techniques
The Selecting Committee of the Photographic Salon of the Linked Ring
'Eventide' by J.B.B. Wellington