Vortograph

Alvin Langdon Coburn · 1916–17

Here we have Vortograph — a photograph by Coburn, nineteen sixteen to nineteen seventeen. Gelatin silver print — about 28 by 21 centimeters. You can pick out the abstract shapes, and the abstract geometric.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 11 1/16 × 8 3/8" (28.1 × 21.2 cm) · Credit Thomas Walther Collection. Grace M. Mayer Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 504: Family Portrait (Clarence H. White and Family), F. Holland Day

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut, Agave Design I, Cut-out Frame no. 2, The City, Mural Painting, Painting

More by Alvin Langdon Coburn here: The Octopus, Waterloo Bridge, London, The Tower Bridge, London