1. ALVIN LANGDON COBURN, House on the Hill, 1904, 5.875x7.375" Photogravure from Camera Work Issue 6, April 1904, Printed c. 1904,

2. ALVIN LANGDON COBURN, Decorative Study, 1906, 7.937x6.375" Photogravure from Camera Work Issue 15, July 1906, Printed c. 1906,

One of the greatest gravure printers as well as a photographer who constantly made new and interesting compositions.

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) was legendary for his photogravure images and printmaking, abstract Vortographs, and modern landscapes of the Grand Canyon and California. An eighth-birthday gift of a Kodak camera launched Coburn's photographic career. At about age sixteen, he came under the tutelage of his cousin, the publisher and photographer F. Holland Day. Coburn in turn taught Day how to print his own images and assisted him in hanging the landmark exhibition "The New School of American Pictorial Photography." Coburn later worked in Gertrude Kasebier's New York studio for about a year. Coburn was one of few photographers who enthusiastically embraced the photogravure process to produce his own books and exhibition prints. When he was young, he studied with the American painter-printmaker Arthur Wesley Dow, who instilled in Coburn the desire to combine art and craft.

In 1902 Coburn became a founding member of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession and opened a studio to display his work on Fifth Avenue in New York. In the following year he joined the British group the Linked Ring. He soon became highly influenced by the Symbolist movement and especially James McNeil Whistler's paintings. Coburn emigrated from Boston to Britain in 1912 and became a naturalized citizen some twenty years later. In 1904 his first portfolio appeared in Camera Work. In 1906 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society. In 1910 he began a series of books illustrated with hand-pulled photogravures. Coburn was strongly influenced by the Cubists and began experiments with abstraction in photography. Despite his expatriation, he co-founded the Pictorialist Photographers of America in 1916, and was later elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. In 1919 he moved to North Wales and began to investigate the mysteries of nature and science through the agencies of Freemasonry, Christianity, and Zen Buddhism. In 1932 he became a naturalized British subject.

Credit: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.19222.html

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1957/alvin-langdon-coburn-british-born-united-states-1882-1966/

1.Excellent. Minor wear.
2. Very good. Minor wear.