A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible. - Alvin Langdon Coburn
An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result. - Alvin Langdon Coburn
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing … - Alvin Langdon Coburn
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing …
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. - Alvin Langdon Coburn
It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating t… - Alvin Langdon Coburn
It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating t…
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. - Alvin Langdon Coburn
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own d… - Alvin Langdon Coburn
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own d…
I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print. - Alvin Langdon Coburn
I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.
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