About Clifford Coffin
Lived 1913 – 1972 (aged 58). Clifford Coffin was an American photographer and fashion photographer.
Clifford Coffin (1913–1972) was an American fashion photographer, particularly for Vogue magazine, and a "wild and eccentric bohemian". He has also been called "the greatest of Vogue magazine's 'lost' photographers", and an "outspoken homosexual with a heroic appetite for self-destruction, his bad behaviour was legendary".
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.
Coffin suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction, and died of throat cancer in Pasadena, California, in 1972, aged 58.
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Who was Clifford Coffin?
American photographer (1913-1972)
When was Clifford Coffin born?
Clifford Coffin was born on 18 June 1913 in Salem.
When did Clifford Coffin die?
Clifford Coffin died on 2 March 1972 in Pasadena.
What was Clifford Coffin's occupation?
Clifford Coffin was a photographer and fashion photographer.
What nationality was Clifford Coffin?
Clifford Coffin was American.
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