Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) was a pioneer in photography - In London, associated with a group of artists who called themselves Vorticists (amongst them : Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Charles Nevinson, and William Roberts), he creates abstract photographic compositions he called vortographs - In the 1920s Coburn became increasingly interested in mysticism - However, he continued to take photographs until his death in 1966.