The Country of the Blind

The Country of the Blind by Alvin Langdon Coburn

Medium

photogravure

Dimensions

image: 15.6 × 19.5 cm (6 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 17 × 21.6 cm (6 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.) mount: 36.8 × 27 cm (14 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of David Mahoney and Winn Ellis

Accession Number

2024.68.17

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 ...

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