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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Vortograph (Ezra Pound)
1917
Gelatin silver print
George Eastman Museum
LL/33197
Is this dynamically composed, robotlike image a golem that protects its master, or does it portray the lost belief in the goodness of the machine? Even though the print is not sharp, this angular machine-age image seems to possess an inhuman sense of strength capable of uncircumspect destruction. Ezra Pound's head is disembodied and appears to be almost sticking on a pike. There is also a hint of a swastika foreshadowing Pound's later embrace of facism.
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