Alvin Langdon Coburn's 'The Octopus' at Ben Uri London exhibition

Weber expert Dr. Percy North discusses Alvin Langdon Coburn's photography within the context of the Ben Uri exhibition of the work of Coburn's friend and peer, the American-Jewish artist Max Weber.

Coburn took both pictorial and abstract photographs. He was influenced by Vorticism and created a Vortoscope (a triangle of mirrors to take abstract photographs known as Vortographs. Examples can be seen in the exhibition as well as their influence on Weber's painting.

'Max Weber: An American Cubist in Paris and London 1905 - 1915' at the Ben Uri Gallery, St. Johns Wood.