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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…
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La Penseur by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1906 – George Bernard Shaw as you probably haven’t seen him before! Back to Rodin again…he gets everywhere.
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I’ve posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin’s Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) -
And final one of Rodin…looking dashing and flash in his jacket and hat.
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Even more from Rodin. Srsly I could fill this blog with Rodin pictures, he was a very beautiful man and one of the first artists that seem truly at ease with the camera (I’m sure I read somewhere he used to collaborate with the photographers, he was fascinated by the process)
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Another shot of Rodin – sadly no info on this one…even Tineye calls a blank! Argh.
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Auguste Rodin – a later shot? Always photogenic that man…
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Auguste Rodin by Nader, 1893