Edition details
London & New York. (2v. + commentary leaflet). Illustrated by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Introduced by Hilaire Belloc. Foreword by H. G. Wells. Introduction by Geoff Dyer. Essay by Rut Blees Luxemburg. 40 rare photogravures in facsimile. Printed on Tatami paper and hand-tipped onto heavyweight grey Materica paper. Printed on Abbey Pure paper, sewn with blue thread and blocked in blue foil on the title page. Quarter-bound in brown goatskin leather with grey Materica paper sides blocked in gold on front and spine. Slipcase covered in grey Materica paper blocked in blue foil. London 68 pages; New York 56 pages. 40 images in total 16½×12in. 500 copies (£435)
About the book
Alvin Langdon Coburn's London and New York presents two great cities through the eye of a pioneering photographer. Streets, buildings, waterways and changing light become carefully composed images in which atmosphere matters as much as the identification of a place. The photographs capture the early twentieth-century metropolis at a moment when photography was asserting its possibilities as an art. Seen together, the two collections reveal Coburn's individual vision of urban life and the expressive qualities that photogravure could give to the modern city's familiar forms.
