Alvin Langdon Coburn: Symbolist Photographer (Aperture Monograph)

Weaver's essay details Coburn's acquaintances with Alfred Stieglitz, F. Holland Day, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and Ezra Pound while discussing his involvement with several of the key photographic movements of the time. Coburn's landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and "vortographs," beautifully reproduced here, reflect his progress toward the creation of a photography of symbol and abstraction.