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Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Alvin Langdon Coburn photo

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Birthday: June 11, 1882

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Death: November 23, 1966

Nationality: United Kingdom, United States Of America

Occupations: Photographer

Total quotes: 1

“An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible. He struggles and suffers knowing that he can never realize his most perfect ideal. Occasional moments of ecstasy lure him on, but nothing is final in art, it is always progressing.”

— Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Future of Pictorial Photography

Tagged: Ideals, Never Quite There, Artistic Process, Artistic Expression, Never Perfect, Never Complete, Striving For Perfection, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism

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