Lee Jaffe

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Bob Marley and Lee Jaffe, Jamaica

New York, NY — since 1971

For fifty years, Lee Jaffe has been in the room as an artist among artists — and photographed it from the inside.

Kingston with Bob Marley and The Wailers. Tokyo and Zurich with Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Amazon, Rio, and wherever the work went next. The pictures are what remain.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, photographed by Lee Jaffe

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Unpublished and rarely-seen photographs from Jaffe’s travels with Basquiat through Japan, Thailand and Switzerland in 1983 — the intimate, behind-the-scenes record of a friendship, collected in Crossroads (Rizzoli).

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