Light & Shadow: The Photographs of Claire Yaffa

by Jeffery Beam and Claire Yaffa

Light and Shadow is a personal meditation by Claire Yaffa on the subtleties of photographic vision. In this monograph, Yaffa, an artist previously known for her documentary work on child abuse,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893817791
• ISBN13: 9780893817794
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Aperture
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring collection of abstract images.

Yaffa shares her sensual vision of the elusive patterns created by light and shadow. In an intimate format, images celebrate line and form the beauty and grace of botanicals, and nudes, demonstrating a humanity inseparable from nature. Her work is tender, poetic and gentle. Her images remain with us as a reminder of life's beauty and its fragility.

Inspiring and beautiful collection of elusive images.

Yaffa shares her sensual visions of the elusive patterns created by light and shadow. Presented in an intimate format, the images celebrate in line and form the beauty and grace of that which encompasses nearly The self portrayed in her work is tender, poetic and gentle Her photographs invite a detailed perspective of our world, from the broad, sweeping motion of a forest to the fluid line of a leaf.

exquisite black and white forms of light and shadow

very sensitive yet stimulating representations of leaves , plant life, and the human form. The lighting and the shadows are both sensual and sensitive. Appreciated by such giants of photography as Gordon Parks, Cornell Capa, and Duane Michels.