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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
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A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
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Born:
June 11, 1882
Died:
November 23, 1966
(aged 84)
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Alvin Langdon Coburn was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism.
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