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John A. Coffer, traveling tintype photographer, Tombstone, Arizona, 1980. Vignetted and Toned in 2009.... more
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April 18th, 2024
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John A. Coffer, traveling tintype photographer, Tombstone, Arizona, 1980. Vignetted and Toned in 2009.
Coffer took the back roads, with his wagon and horse, to journey to Tombstone.
He spent seven years on the road. Coffer lives in Finger Lakes, New York in a 12 feet square cabin (he built himself) on a 48 acre farm with no plumbing, phone or car. A 75 watt solar panel charges batteries for one light bulb and a radio tuned to National Public Radio. Essentially he lives as if in the 1860's, earning a modest living from the sale of his prints and periodic workshops.
Tintypes were a popular (and cheap compared to the pricey daguerreotypes) form of 19th century photography. The only known portrait of Billy the Kid is a tintype.
Tintypes were a popular form of photography spanning 1860 to 1910. An iron plate was coated with light sensitive collodion.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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