land, 1903. Major holdings of his work are housed at
the International Museum of Photography and Film at
the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin; and the Royal Photographic
Society, England. Died in Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales,
23 November 1966.Individual Exhibitions
1903 Camera Club of New York; New York
1906 Royal Photographic Society; England
1906 Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association; Liver-
pool, England
1907 Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession; New York
1909 Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, New York
1917 Show of Vortograph photographs and paintings, Gou-
pil Gallery; New York
1924 Royal Photographic Society; England
1962 University of Reading; Reading, England
1978 Alvin Langdon Coburn; George Eastman House;
Rochester, New York, and traveling
1982 Alvin Langdon Coburn, Man of Mark 1882–1966: Cen-
tenary Exhibition, The Royal Photographic Society and
The National Centre of Photography; England
1983 Alvin Langdon Coburn: London/New York, 1909–1910;
International Center of Photography, New York
1987 Alvin Langdon Coburn: A Retrospective; Haverford
Comfort Gallery, Harverford, College; Harverford,
Pennsylvania, and traveling
1998 Alvin Langdon Coburn; Photokina, Ro ̈misch-Germa-
nisches Museum; Cologne, Germany
1999 Alvin Langdon Coburn; George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York
Group Exhibitions
1900 New School of American Photography; Royal Photo-
graphic Society; England; and Photo Club-de Paris;
Paris, France
1910 International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography; Alb-
right Knox Gallery; Buffalo, New York
1915 American Pictorial Photography; Syracuse University;
Syracuse, New York
1937 Photography, 1839–1937; Museum of Modern Art,
New York
1978 The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of
Modern Photography; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
1978 Pictorial Photography in Britain, 1900–1920; Arts
Council of Great Britain, and traveling
1979 Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs,
1900–1930; Whitney Museum of American Art; New
York; and Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
1981 Cubism and American Photography, 1910–1930; Ster-
ling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Williamstown,
Massachusetts, and traveling
1983 Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession; Currier Gal-
lery of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire, and traveling
1997 Alvin Langdon Coburn and H.G. Wells: The Photogra-
pher and the Novelist, A Unique Collection of Photo-
graphs and Letters from the University Library’s H.G.
Wells Collection; Krannert Art Museum; University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana-Champaign, Illi-
noisSelected Works
The Bridge–Ipswich, 1903
Regent’s Canal, London, 1904
Shadows and Reflections, Venice, 1905
Le Penseur (George Bernard Shaw), 1906
Spider Webs, 1906
Notre Dame, 1906
William Butler Yeats, 1908
The Copper Plate Press, self-portrait, 1908
Wapping, Plate X fromLondon, 1909
The Great Temple, Grand Canyon, 1911
The Octopus, New York, 1912
Vortograph of Ezra Pound, 1916
Vortographs, series, 1917Further Reading
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, with an essay by Hilaire Belloc.
London. London: Duckworth & Co., and New York:
Brentano’s, 1909.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon with a foreword by H. G. Wells.
New York. London: Duckworth & Co., and New York:
Brentano’s, 1910.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon.Men of Mark. London: Duck-
worth & Co., and New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon and Nancy Newhall.A Portfolio of
Sixteen Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Roche-
ster, New York: George Eastman House, 1962.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, and edited by Helmut and Alison
Gernsheim.Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An
Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His
Works. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1966.
Cork, Richard.Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First
Machine Age. London: G. Frasier and Berkeley: Univer-
sity of California, 1976.
Homer, Willian Innes.Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Seces-
sion. Boston: New York Graphic Society, and Little,
Brown and Company, 1983.
Maeterlinck, Maurice.The Intelligence of Flower. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907.
Naef, Weston.The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pio-
neers of Modern Photography. New York: Metropolitan
Museum of Art and Viking Press, 1978.
Steinorth, Karl, editor with essay by Nancy Newhall and
texts by Anthony Bannon. Alvin Langdon Coburn:
Photographs 1900–1924.Zu ̈rich and New York: Edition
Stemmle, 1998.
Weaver, Mike.Alvin Langdon Coburn: Symbolist Photogra-
pher, 1882–1966, Beyond the Craft. New York: Aperture
Foundation, 1986.
Zinnes, Harriet.Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts. New York:
New Directions, 1981.COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON