Singer Building
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 20.8 x 6.3 cm (8 3/16 x 2 1/2 in.) sheet: 23 x 6.9 cm (9 1/16 x 2 11/16 in.) mount: 36.5 x 16.6 cm (14 3/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
2009.76.2
About the Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) was a British-American photographer and one of the most important figures in the Pictorialist and early modernist photography movements. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he took up photography as a child and by his teens was already exhibiting internationally. He studied under leading photographers of the era, including Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier, and was ...