Self-Portrait
Medium
platinum print processed with mercury
Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 16.7 cm (8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Diana and Mallory Walker Fund
Accession Number
2007.61.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn · 1882–1966
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 ...