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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn New York (Book)1910

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Sepia-toned vertical photograph looking up a shadowed city street toward a tall tower with a pyramidal spire and clock face
Sepia-toned photograph of a large suspension bridge tower with twin Gothic arches, viewed at close range from above, with a busy waterfront dock and steamboats below and a river receding into the background.
Gelatin silver print of an urban waterfront scene, with two small vessels moored along a dock in the foreground, billowing smoke rising from stacks amid low industrial buildings, and tall city buildings receding into a hazy background.
Gelatin silver print, two silhouetted figures standing on a rooftop or elevated surface, large steel structural beams framing the foreground, a suspension bridge visible in the misty background, soft tonal gradations with deep shadows.
Gelatin silver print of a wet urban street scene, with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians in early 20th-century dress in the foreground, large stone buildings filling the background, soft focus and slight motion blur throughout.
Gelatin silver print of a rain-slicked city street at night, with a row of globe-topped lampposts receding into the distance, their light reflected on wet pavement; glowing commercial signs including "Grand Drugs Soda" and "Daly's" visible in the soft-focused background
Photogravure of a tall triangular skyscraper rising behind bare winter trees, with a snow-covered park in the foreground and a shadowy figure in a hat standing near a tree trunk at left.
Photogravure or gelatin silver print of a busy urban waterfront, viewed from the water. Steamships and sailing vessels with tall masts crowd the docks, with billowing smoke rising on both sides. Multi-story commercial buildings and a tall tower rise behind the wharf in soft, diffused tonal gradations.
Gelatin silver print, narrow vertical composition looking up a busy urban street toward a tall tower with an ornate domed crown, flanked by multistory buildings, with pedestrians and vehicles below.
Gelatin silver print of a waterfront scene, dark wooden dock pilings in the foreground, a steam vessel with smokestack silhouetted against pale sky on misty water in the middle distance, soft-focus pictorialist technique with dark tonal range.
Gelatin silver print of an industrial work site, three laborers silhouetted against a hazy sky; two figures work atop a raised platform beneath a crane hook while a third shovels at ground level near a mound of earth, with billowing smoke or steam at upper left.
Gelatin silver print of a Neoclassical building facade with tall Corinthian columns and a pedimented entrance; pedestrians in early 20th-century dress walk along the sidewalk in the foreground, rendered with soft focus.
Gelatin silver print of a suspension bridge under construction, its twin steel towers and drooping cables dominating the frame above a busy waterway with a steam-belching tugboat and industrial buildings in soft-focus background.
Gelatin silver print of a city street at night, with a domed skyscraper lit against a hazy sky, bare winter trees at left, and streaked lights from passing vehicles below.
Gelatin silver print, aerial view looking down a narrow urban canyon flanked by tall Beaux-Arts and early skyscraper buildings, with crowds of pedestrians and vehicles visible on the street below.
Gelatin silver print, elevated view of a city street at dusk or night, flanked by Gothic church spires in the foreground and receding buildings in soft focus, with glowing street lamps forming a luminous corridor into the hazy distance.
Gelatin silver print of an urban waterfront skyline, with a low barge in the foreground river and steamships emitting large plumes of smoke against a backdrop of multistory buildings, soft tonal gradation throughout
Photogravure or platinum print of an urban cityscape, low-rise ornate buildings in the foreground with tall early skyscrapers rising behind, billowing clouds of steam or smoke obscuring the left side, soft tonal gradations and vigneted edges.
Artist or Maker
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Title
Alvin Langdon Coburn New York (Book)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1910
Medium
Photogravure
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.501.1-.20
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography