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
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 ...