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Cracking Coburn by Chris Dickie, from Ag30 |
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An historical collaboration between a fine print studio and George Eastman House. When Pam Roberts was curator of the Royal Photographic Society’s Collection - she performed the role between 1989 and 2001 - she enjoyed a successful collaboration with fine art printers 31 Studio in the production of a limited edition platinum print of Frederick H Evans ‘The Sea of Steps’, the negative of which is in the RPS Collection. Now the same parties are embarked upon a similar but substantially more ambitious enterprise in collaboration with George Eastman House (GEH) in Rochester, USA: the making of five volumes of limited edition platinum and gum platinum prints from original negatives by Alvin Langdon Coburn in GEH’s photography collection. Each volume is in an edition of 45. Coburn, an American, lived between 1882 and 1966, and moved to the UK just before WW1, settling in Wales. In due course he became a British citizen. His career spanned 60 years, and he donated much of his work to the RPS in 1930, but the lion’s share went, by bequest, to George Eastman House following his death. The GEH collection of Coburn’s work is said to comprise in excess of 17,000 negatives and 2000 prints - one heck of a lot of material from which to select the 25 images that make up the current project. Coburn’s subjects were varied and included portraits, in particular notable figures of the day, some of which were published in book form. Cities and landscapes were another favourite - the pictures of London and New York featured here were all taken, or are believed to have been taken, between 1903 and around 1910. He mastered many printing processes and became influenced by some of the prominent art movements of the day, for example producing a number of ‘Vortographs’, two examples of which are published here (from the Volume 2 portfolio). Next Page >> |
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