Vortograph
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.67 × 20.96 cm (10 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2003.120.1
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 ...