Boston 1882 - Colwyn Bay 1966
E 'was an American photographer.
Coming from a family of industrialists, and came to photography for the involvement of a distant cousin, FH Day, which began in 1900 to Pictorialism and helped him to exhibit in London.
The following year, in Paris, he studied under the guidance of Edward Steichen , after opening a studio in New York in 1905 he returned to London where he made many portraits of intellectuals who would later be collected in Men of mark two volumes (1913, Men of success) and More Men of Mark (1922; Other successful men).
Thanks to the studies conducted from 1907 to 1909 on the technique of etching, was only able to print from the plates of his collections dedicated to London (1909) and New York (1910). Already these early works mark a passing pictorial aesthetics in favor of a cutting-edge research, particularly evident in the path of the Grand Canyon 26 views appeared in the magazine Camera Work (1911) or semi-abstract composition entitled Urban Octopus (1912).
In 1917 his research led to the extreme symbolist adhering to the vortex, a movement founded in England by E. And W. Pound Lewis, in this period are the so-called vortografi, images obtained before placing a prism lens with reflective surfaces which implemented a breakdown of cubist forms. Driven by a strong spiritual tension, Coburn in 1919 was affiliated to the Freemasons, relegating the photo in the background.
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George Bernard Shaw
Canal Venice
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Henri Matisse
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