Brooklyn Bridge
Alvin Langdon Coburn
c. 1910
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 19.9 x 14.7 cm (7 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.) sheet: 21.2 x 15.3 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Accession Number
2010.76.9
About the Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) was a British-American photographer and one of the most important figures in the Pictorialist and early modernist photography movements. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he took up photography as a child and by his teens was already exhibiting internationally. He studied under leading photographers of the era, including Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, and was ...