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]

  1. ^ Vaillat, Jessica. "Coffin, Clifford : Photography, History". The Red List. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "Clifford Coffin: The Varnished Truth – Photographs from Vogue 1945 to 1955". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 18 June 2023.