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Tintype photographer goes back to basics
The Times today has an interesting profile of a tintype photographer living in a log cabin in upstate New York. He teaches classes on this 19th-century method of photography; the samples in the article (by a NYT photographer who has taken his class) are good.
Coffer sounds like an interesting character. He likes his "back to basics" lifestyle... a lot. This is a guy who drives a horse and buggy for eight hours to get to the Civil War reenactment. From Born 150 Years Too Late - New York Times:
His wife had wanted adventure, but after a while she said she'd leave if they didn't settle down. In 1985, they came to Yates County, where land was $300 an acre and an Amish community provided a support system for horse-drawn conveyances. Mr. Coffer's wife stuck around for the building of the cabin. Then came her demands for the car and the phone, he said. Then, he said, after two years in the cabin, she ran off with Mr. Coffer's assistant for the bright lights of Ithaca.
