Alvin Coburn: An interesting study of him I have just read...

[Hugo Zhang]

I discovered Alvin a few years ago with the purchase of my P&S lens and my intererst in this photographer grows as I play more with the lens. A very interesting guy who has left with us many wonderful photographs and I consider him one of the masters of portrait photography. So much for me to learn from him.

Here is a study I found online a few days ago and would like to share with your guys...

http://www.notesonphotographs.org/images/6/6c/ValentinaBranchini_research_web.pdf

Hugo

[Struan Gray]

Hugo, thanks for pointing out this great resource.

Coburn is my favourite of the pictorialists, by a long way.

[Brian C. Miller]

I thought the Cristoid film was interesting. I never knew about it! Two emulsions, back to back, slower on top and faster on the bottom. And no support! We complain about the Rollei IR film, I wonder what it was like to work with something that was nothing more than two layers of emulsion.

[mdarnton]

In looking at Coburn, myself, I found Eastman House has a brochure for Cristoid film:
http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Cristoid_Film

[Steve Goldstein]

Has anybody else had trouble opening the pdf mentioned by Hugo in his original post? I get messages "file damaged" messages with both Acroread and SumatraPDF on my PC, as well as with Okular on my linux box at work.

[Jim Noel]

Has anybody else had trouble opening the pdf mentioned by Hugo in his original post? I get messages "file damaged" messages with both Acroread and SumatraPDF on my PC, as well as with Okular on my linux box at work.

Same problem using Acrobat Reader.

[Jim Noel]

I found this link which works.
http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Alvin_Langdon_Coburn/Technique

[ghostcount]

Found this one too...

http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Branchini,_Valentina._%22The_Photographs_of_Alvin_Langdon_Coburn_at_George_Eastman_House.%22
(http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Branchini,_Valentina._%22The_Photographs_of_Alvin_Langdon_Coburn_at_George_Eastman_House.%22)