About the Author:
Claire Yaffa is a noted freelance photographer who works for the New York Times. Her photographs have been published with Condé Nast and Gannett papers, among others. Her photographs portraying child abuse, the homeless, children with AIDS, and the aging population have appeared as a part of television documentary reports on NBC, ABC, and PBS. She has published two monographs of her reportage work, Reaching Out and A Dying Child is Born: The Story of Tracy. The recipient of the 1995 Westchester Arts Council award, her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including the Hudson River Museum, the International Center of Photography, Sarah Lawrence College, the White Plains Museum Gallery, and the United Nations.
Gordon Parks began his career in photography working for the Farm Security Administration and has continued as an esteemed photojournalist ever since--documenting the civil rights movement, exploring issues surrounding crime, poverty, and discrimination worldwide, as well as producing portrait studies of many notables. His recent art combines painting and photography in a reflective studies of form and color. Parks is the author of many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Now eighty-four, he lives and works in New York City.
Jeffrey Beam lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has published widely in small magazines and anthologies, including: the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Black Men/White Men, The Worcester Review, Dreamworks, and Yellow Silk. Additionally, Beam is the author of eight books of poems. His volume entitled Midwinter Fires was nominated for a 1991-2 Pushcart Prize.
Review:
"With her newest work, Claire has evolved towards one of the great timeless photographic traditions, the study of form, light, and their sensual interplay-the most profound ingredients of all photography. Like all artists she has reinvented the genre with her own silent elegance, and those who are willing to see, will be touched in a way that only poetry can touch. The font of her passion is love, not ambition. These photographs are timeless in a time that has no patience for nuance. Look, see for yourself."--Duane Michals
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