St. Paul's from Ludgate Circus, from "London Portfolio"
Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn
(British, born in America, 1882 - 1966)
Date1905
MediumHand pulled photogravure
DimensionsMat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
Image: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Image: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Roberta DeGolyer,1991
Object number1991.3.6
DescriptionView from higher elevation looking down on city street with cars on street and people walking on sidewalk. Large puff of white smoke a right of image. Dome of St. Paul's at top left of image. Top of tiered building to right of dome.eMuseum Notes
Coburn often used Saint Paul’s Cathedral as the subject of his photographs. Here it is rendered in the Pictorialist style, popular around the turn of the twentieth century, as artists working in photography fought to establish their medium as one of the fine arts. The focus is diffused and the image has the softness of a charcoal drawing (a more accepted art form), while also capturing the gritty, industrial quality of London in the early 1900s.
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