The Curiosity Shop
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 28.6 x 20.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2006.133.45
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 ...