COBURN ALVIN LANGDON The Cloud Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sale 1947 - Lot 108

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Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000

WITH 6 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON<>
The Cloud.<> Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. With 6 cloud studies, by Coburn, of Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Platinum prints, 7½x5½ inches (19x14 cm.), tipped to the original mount. Small folio, ¼ linen, title label affixed to the front cover, dampstained; pastedowns stained, contents clean, tight, and uncut; dust jacket, loss to upper right of front panel, dampstained; with the original illustrated prospectus laid in. one of 60 numbered copies signed by coburn.<> Los Angeles: C. C. Parker, 1912

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An especially rare copy of a little-known Coburn title that contains original platinum prints of Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Coburn was fascinated with the photographic potential of the American West, and was particularly intrigued by the sense of space and light, which is evident in these images. Clouds were a subject he often returned to, and Shelley's poem complements his images perfectly. Of the edition of 60, it is likely that only 30 were made. Other known copies remain in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum and the George Eastman House.<