AIPAD 2023
A Preview Of Our Selection For The 2023 Photography Show, Presented By AIPAD
March 31 – April 2, 2023
Dark Sun Nº64
Dark Sun, Nº66
Dark Sun Nº24
Dark Sun Nº3
Dark Sun Nº18
Dark Sun Nº9
Dark Sun Nº2
Dark Sun Nº5
Dark Sun Nº63
Dark Sun Nº1
Dark Sun Nº65
Dark Sun Nº7
Dark Sun Nº20
Dark Sun Nº62
Dark Sun Nº58
Dark Sun Nº60
Forest of Ghosts Nº1
Forest of Ghosts Nº4
Forest of Ghosts Nº3
Forest of Ghosts Nº2
Forest of Ghosts Nº7
Forest of Ghosts Nº8
Forest of Ghosts Nº20
Forest of Ghosts Nº10
Barbara Jaffe’s series DARK SUN embraces the expressive potential of negative photographic images. The reversed tonal values in her prints open up a surprising and sensuous view of the world, as if we are seeing a secret side of things. In 1987, after years of working in color, Jaffe was drawn to the hands-on experimentation offered by her black and white darkroom. Struck by the way one of her photographs seemed utterly transformed when printed as a negative, she initiated her three decade exploration into this process of photographic alchemy.
In the introduction to her book DARK SUN, curator and critic Lyle Rexer observes that Jaffe’s prints reverse the normal order of things, where typically we understand light to fall on objects: “it is as if the negative unlocked the unknown capacity of objects in the world to emit light.” This inverted quality of light allows us to see things with fresh eyes, revealing the latent spirituality in our everyday world.
Barbara Jaffe’s work has been widely exhibited, and is in the collection of many museums in the U.S. and abroad, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium and others.
Her book, DARK SUN, has been acquired by the libraries at Harvard, Yale, NYU, UCLA, MassArt, and over 40 others in Europe and Asia.
