Alvin Langdon Coburn and Ballantyne & Company Limited
Regents Canal
1909
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Physical Qualities
Photogravure, Sheet: 217 x 170 mm. (8 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 12 from the portfolio, 'London', published in 1909
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tilghman Hollyday
Object Number
1978.73.12
Coburn was one of several early-twentieth-century photographers involved in the promotion of photography as an independent, viable art form. A deeply spiritual man, Coburn became engrossed in mysticism later in life. His photographs are intended to evoke the spiritual quality of the subject by using soft tonalities and evocative light. As in a painting, blurred edges—the arc of the bridge and its reflection —frame the successive layers of receding space.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.
Inscribed: Alvin Langdon Coburn, with introduction by Hilaire Belloc, London, London: Duckworth & Co. and NY: Brentano's
