“But becomes more painful my own
tearing which I prepare
in order to say a word that is my own”


In 1913, Alvin Langdon Coburn, an American photographer asked: “Why should not the artist break away from the worn-out conventions... and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive?” The question underscores the constant need of the artist for new ways of expression, either he is a photographer in the 1900s or a writer in 2009. Both visual an More...