John Cofield

John Cofield’s Photo of the Week: “James ‘Blind Jim’ Ivy”

John Cofield March 29, 2023 1 minute read

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J. R. Cofield‘s last shot of many he took of James “Blind Jim” Ivy, in 1955 at The Lyceum, three months before Jim passed away.

John Cofield

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John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. "Colonel" Cofield, was William Faulkner's personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford's pictorial history.

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