Claire Yaffa
Photographs
Leica Gallery
670 Broadway
New York City 10012
June 27 - August 9
From the Sarah Lawrence College web site:
Claire Yaffa is an esteemed independent photojournalist, critically-acclaimed fine art photographer, and internationally-famous portraitist. As a photojournalist, Yaffa devoted her career to social issues - documenting the plight of the ill, homeless and disadvantaged, especially children and the elderly. This work has been published in four collections: child abuse and rehabilitation (Reaching Out, 1987); children with AIDS (A Dying Child is Born, 1992); the homeless (Homeless in Westchester County, 1988); and the work of The New York Foundling Hospital (The Foundling: The Story of The New York Foundling Hospital, 2001).
Yaffa's four fine art monographs – the first three prefaced by the late Gordon Parks - include Light and Shadow (1998), a personal meditation on the subtleties of the photographic vision, of which Gordon Parks writes: “Whatever appears seems to have been carved from grace". Her most recent book, Divertissement (2008), will be published both as an individual edition and as part of a three-book slip-cased compilation of her fine-art work.
Claire Yaffa’s photographs have been published in The New York Times as well as in a wide range of Condé Nast and Gannett papers and periodicals. Her photographs portraying the social issues of our times have appeared as part of television documentaries on NBC, ABC and PBS. She is the recipient of the 1995 Westchester Arts Council Award and her work has been exhibited in such public institutions as the International Center of Photography, Hudson River Museum, the Sarah Lawrence College, the White Plains Museum Gallery and the Neuberger Museum of Art.