Vortograph Kaleidoscope WW1 Bromide Print Alvin Coburn V&A Postcard

AHOP(-g) -  This is a stunning collectors opportunity to secure this original undated but modern origin VA& Museum photo souvenir by historic photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn with full details if the 1917 work on reverse and the V&A official museum logo too unused and mint condition.

Why did Alvin Langdon Coburn do a series of landmark photography experiments in 1916 that led to the creation of his famous Vortographs, the world's first truly abstract photographs which remain among the most striking images of early twentieth century photography?

In 1916 Alvin Langdon Coburn, one of the most outstanding photographers of the period, met poet Ezra Pound who introduced him to the English Vorticist movement which began in London in 1914, formed by the writer and painter Wyndham Lewis. Vorticisim was partially inspired by Cubism and its manifesto rejected landscapes and nudes in favour of a geometric style that was much more abstract. The new visual aesthetics of Vorticism intrigued Coburn, and in 1916 he began to re-examine his photographic style. He proceeded to do a series of photographic experiments to prove that photography was not incompatible with abstraction and only capable of rendering a helplessly accurate and literal copy of the real world.