May I present to you Mr Alvin Langdon Coburn, photographer.

“My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.”

Photographed GBS in the nude, Rodin, Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter…are you noticing a trend here? All I need is a link to F Holland Day and Gibran and the circle is complete.

EDIT: F Holland Day was his cousin. FFS! It’s so incestuous…he was also married but with that lineage/peer-daddy group, who really knows…