John Coffer "The Daily Tintype"

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

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John Coffer is a twenty-first century master of an age-old photographic medium known as
the wet plate collodion process. Referred to in popular parlance as the nineteenth-century
tintype, this technique was used to create photographic portraiture during the mid 1800s.
These portraits were cheap, they were fast, they were durable, and, up until recently, they
were a lost art and had not been made for more than a century. Coffer rediscovered the
medium and reinvented its boundaries in the early 1980’s. After experimenting with early
photographic methods, he finally rediscovered the archaic and volatile formulas used in
making traditional tintypes.

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from March 27, 2008 to April 26, 2008

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John Coffer

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