Alvin Langdon Coburn

American | 1882 - 1966

Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American photographer who was born in 1882.

How much does an Alvin Langdon Coburn cost?

Alvin Langdon Coburn's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 965,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Alvin Langdon Coburn's most expensive photography?

Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 965,000 USD for SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS, VENICE, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2014. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 1,176 USD.

Where can I see Alvin Langdon Coburn's works?

His work is currently being shown at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. have featured Alvin Langdon Coburn's work in the past.

Alvin Langdon Coburn in the news

Alvin Langdon Coburn has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Christie's Daily in December 2022. The artist died in 1966.

Artist's alternative names: Alvin Langdon

Featured for Sale

St. Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London. 1905. ,1905

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

Swann Auction Galleries

Men of Mark ,1913

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Vortograph ,1917

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

+4%

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Shadows and Reflections, Venice - Alvin Langdon Coburn

Shadows and Reflections, Venice ,1905

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

+143%

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Vortograph

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

+43%

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Upcoming Lots

Men of Mark ,1913

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Property from the Estate of Lewis Lehr

Attributed to Alvin Langdon Coburn

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St. Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London. 1905. - Alvin Langdon Coburn

St. Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London. 1905. ,1905

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Recent Auction Results

Trafalgar Square from beneath Nelsons Column;

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York, 1910

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Alvin Langdon Coburn: London, 1909

By Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Current Exhibitions

KMoPA 30th Anniversary Exhibition: Adventures in Photography

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts

Japan

Mar 20,2025 - Jun 15,2025

Past Exhibitions

Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840鈥�1940

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. | District Of Columbia | USA

Oct 15,2023 - Feb 04,2024

Grace Ndiritu reimagines the FOMU Collection

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp

Antwerp | Belgium

Feb 17,2023 - Jan 07,2024

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Articles

Christie's Daily 07/12/2022

Philippe Garner, former deputy chairman at Christie鈥檚, assesses how the market for photographs 鈥� initially focused on Victorian pioneers, and now reflecting a demand for living artists 鈥� has grown over the half century since Christie鈥檚 first dipped into the medium

ArtDaily 19/09/2021

Christie鈥檚 announces it has been entrusted to sell a selection of photographs, prints and multiples from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All of the works are duplicates of works within the Museum鈥檚 collection.

ArtDaily 26/08/2020

The George Eastman Museum premiered Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today on July 26 in the museum鈥檚 main galleries.

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鈥� ..Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan's collection, the installation will include approximately forty photographs, ranging from the late 1890s to the present... 鈥�
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

鈥� ..(British, 1841-1923), the use of platinum was quickly embraced by both professional and amateur photographers alike and helped to establish photography as a fine art... 鈥�
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J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center

鈥� ..These hand-crafted prints differentiated themselves from the crisp images produced by commercial photographers and snapshots made with hand-held cameras recently introduced by Kodak... 鈥�
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J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center

鈥� ..The modernist's aesthetic inclination was to withdraw from representing reality, "in favor of an increasing preoccupation with the problems intrinsic to painting itself... 鈥�
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Vered Gallery

鈥� ..Coburn was a photographer associated with Pictorialism at the turn of the twentieth century who embraced Modernism around 1917... 鈥�
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George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography and Film