Abstract
In the early 1920s, Alvin Langdon Coburn made a series of photographs in the city of Manchester, England. This little known work was commissioned by local industrialists, elected officials and a gentleman's club. Coburn's photographs illustrated the sponsor's promotional books and brochures. These photographs of the city open up a number of issues which are addressed in this essay: the attraction of pictorialist photography to Manchester's industrialists and leaders, the integrity of an artist's commercial work, notions of worker-employee relations, and the connection between the use of photography and the changing economic fortunes of Manchester.
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