Alvin Langdon Coburn among the Vorticists: studio photographs and lost works by Epstein, Lewis and Wadsworth

• Autores: Mark Antliff
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1290, 2010, págs. 580-589
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An essay examining the relationship between the photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn and the artists of the Vorticist movement. The author begins by charting Coburn's relations with the London-based avant-garde in order to better understand the sophisticated perspective that he brought to his portraits of the Vorticist artists. He then goes on to examine an undiscovered body of work, including correspondence with the artists, a group of undocumented prints, and a series of remarkable photographs that Coburn took of the Vorticist artists Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein, and Edward Wadsworth in their studios in February 1916 and January 1917. Now housed at the Coburn archive in George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, these images document key works by the Vorticists that have since been lost, as well as providing the earliest known visual record of sculptures by Epstein.