
'The Water Front', New York, c 1910.
Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, born USA, naturalised UK. By 1917, Coburn was a precursor of the Modernist movement in photography, having mastered, and improved, practically every form of photography available. For the first 10 years of the twentieth century, he travelled between England and the USA, photographing notables such as Mark Twain, Yeats, Shaw and Matisse as well as New York, London, Paris, Edinburgh and Yosemite.
Credit
Victoria and Albert Royal Photographic Society
Dimensions
3485 x 3508 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
12 x 12 inches / 30 x 30 cm