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Creator

British Photographer · 1882–1966

An eighth-birthday gift of a Kodak camera launched Alvin Langdon Coburn's photographic career. At about age sixteen, he came under the tutelage of his cousin, the publisher and photographer F. Holland Day; Coburn in turn taught Day how to print his own images and assisted him in hanging the landmark exhibition, "The New School of American Pictorial Photography." Coburn later worked in Gertrude Käs