A Portfolio of Sixteen Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
by Coburn, Alvin Langdon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Rochester, New York: George Eastman House, 1962. Hardcover. vg. Ex library. Folio. 16 photographs & 21 page booklet resting in rebacked paper-covered portfolio. Minor staining to boards. Edges of back cover and inside of folder repaired with black binders tape. Title and library number handwritten on spine. Bookplate of library on inside of front cover, slight abrasions on inside of front board. 16 tipped-in annotated reproductions of b/w photographs, includes photo of Mark Twain, G. K. Chesterton, William Butler Yeats & Arnold Dolmetsch. Introduction by Nancy Newhall. Folder in good-, plates & booklet in near fine condition. Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) was an American photographer who pioneered vortographs, an abstract work produced using mirrors in a vortoscope, rather than a kaleidoscope.
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- Seller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18541
- Title
- A Portfolio of Sixteen Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
- Author
- Coburn, Alvin Langdon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Eastman House
- Place of Publication
- Rochester, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- American photographers, Contemporary photography, b/w photography, Vortographs, Vorticists
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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