7 Quotes by Alvin Langdon Coburn

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

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.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.