Clifford Coffin (photographer)
Clifford Coffin (1913 - 1972) was an American fashion photographer, particularly for Vogue magazine, and a "wild and eccentric bohemian".[1] He has also been called "the greatest of Vogue magazine’s 'lost' photographers",[2] and an "outspoken homosexual with a heroic appetite for self-destruction, his bad behaviour was legendary".[2]
Clifford Coffin: The Varnished Truth – Photographs from Vogue 1945 to 1955 was an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery for three months in 1997. [2]
Coffin suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction, and died of throat cancer in Pasadena, California, in 1972, aged 58.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Coffin, Clifford : Photography, History". The Red List. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Clifford Coffin: The Varnished Truth – Photographs from Vogue 1945 to 1955 - National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
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