| Tintypes |
| The Works of John Coffer |
| It is as if time stood still, 140 years ago, in the life of John Coffer. The wet plate and tintype photographer makes his home on a farm with no running water, electricity or telephone in New York's Finger Lakes Region. Coffer travels by horse and wagon to take his photographs, which include still lifes and scenes such as the reenactment, in 1997, of the Battle of Antietam. Coffer adopted the lifestyle of a Civil War-era itinerant photographer more than 20 years ago and was among the first to revive the wet plate process that was used by Mathew Brady and other photographers of the day. Other examples of John Coffer's contemporary tintype photography include interiors of the Museum's Schermerhorn Row and the magnificant, redundant City Hall subway station. |
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