[Many thanks to Annie Paul (PREE) for bringing this item to our attention.] Lee Jaffe’s Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossroads (with foreword by Franklin Sirmans and contributions by J. Religion Almiron) was printed by Rizzoli in Might 2022.
Description: A uncommon and poignant compilation of pictures and written anecdotes by American photographer and artist Lee Jaffe that captures his shut friendship, collaboration, and travels with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as they traversed Japan, Thailand, and Switzerland in 1983.
Lee Jaffe, a cross-disciplinary visible artist, musician, and poet, took photographs of his buddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, once they traveled overseas in 1983. As a photographer, Jaffe had a connection to Basquiat, and their time spent collectively resulted in an archive of images that captured one of many artwork world’s true legends by an unfiltered and genuine lens.
Basquiat and Jaffe related over reggae music at a mutual buddy’s artwork present. It was the early Nineteen Eighties in New York, when the artwork scene was uncooked, sophisticated, and thriving, and Jaffe cultivated sturdy connections with cultural figures comparable to Basquiat, Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh. “For me, watching him [ Jean] paint jogged my memory of the occasions I’d sit and play harmonica whereas Bob Marley, along with his acoustic guitar, can be writing songs that had been finally to turn out to be classics,” Jaffe says. “With Jean and Bob, it appeared like they had been channeling inspiration coming from an otherworldly place.”
This lovely quantity presents snapshots of Basquiat: from the artist smiling on a bullet practice to Kyoto and behind-the-scenes documentation of Basquiat creating art work in St. Moritz, to poignant portraits that mirror his plain magnetism. These uncommon depictions of Basquiat come to life with Jaffe’s unforgettable experiences of their friendship, collaborations, and travels detailed in non-public written recollections and anecdotes. This insightful and shifting illustrated quantity captures the soul of the unedited, bold, younger artist through the peak of his quick but unprecedented inventive profession.
Lee Jaffe is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, musician, and producer.
Franklin Sirmans is a author, curator, and presently director of Perez Artwork Museum, Miami.
J. Religion Almiron is a New York–based mostly author, editor, and cultural research educator at Rutgers College and The Institute for Analysis in African-American Research at Columbia College.
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