Clifford Coffin (1913–1972) was an American fashion photographer, particularly for ''

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'' 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

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in Pasadena, California, in 1972, aged 58.

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