Lot #1118: ALVIN LANGDON COBURN - London Bridge - Original vintage photogravure

 

Artist: Alvin Langdon Coburn (American, 1882 - 1966).
Title: "London Bridge".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1905. Printed 1910.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 x 5 3/4 in. (229 x 146 mm). Image size: 5 11/16 x 4 3/8 in. (144 x 111 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edtion unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Full margins as issued. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition.
Comment(s): Coburn was one of a key group of photographers whose work redirected the aesthetics of 19th-century pictorialism towards the realm of 20th-century avant-garde practice. He was introduced to photography by his distant cousin, the prominent pictorialist Fred Holland Day, in 1898. Within the next five years he had become a central figure in the circles of artistic photography, and was invited to join both the Photo-Secessionists in New York and The Linked Ring Brotherhood in London – groups which included the most artistically progressive photographers of international pictorialism. [24766-1-600-NA]