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The Octopus, New York, platinum print by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1912.
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The Octopus, New York

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  • The Octopus, New York, platinum print by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1912.
    In Alvin Langdon Coburn

    These photographs, especially The Octopus, New York, display a novel use of perspective and an emphasis upon abstract pattern. In 1917 he began taking the first completely nonobjective photographs. He called them vortographs to associate them with the Vorticists, a group of English writers and painters who had been…

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