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Born June 11, 1882 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died November 23, 1966 (aged 84) • Denbighshire • Wales
Movement / Style abstract art • Linked Ring • Photo-Secession

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The Octopus, New York, platinum print by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1912.
Vortograph portrait of Ezra Pound by Alvin Langdon Coburn
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