N. Jay Jaffee

N. Jay Jaffee
Hazard (New York)
1949
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Fight for Peace (May Day Parade, New York)
1949
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Woman under Movie Marquee (Times Square)
ca. 1949
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Woman reading Paper under El
1950
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Woman with Broom
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Girl on Skates (Brooklyn)
1950
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Oriole Baths (Long Island)
1950
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Pillars in Sunlight (Brooklyn)
1951
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Two Men in Subway
1952
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Bryant Park
1953
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Looking at Sand Sculpture (Coney Island)
1956
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Man and Woman with Shadows (Brighton Beach)
1974
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Two Men
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Self Portrait
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Building Repair (Paris)
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
At the Minster (York, England)
1982
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Sculpture with White Paint
1989
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Group Picture (Los Angeles)
1989
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

N. Jay Jaffee
Clouds and Seascape (Lloyd Harbor, New York)
1990
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Troas

For love Appollo (his Godhead set aside)

Was servant to the king of Thessaley,

Whose daughter was so pleasant in his eye,

That bothe his harpe and sawtrey he defide,

And bagpipe solace of the rurall bride,

Did puffe and blowe and on the holtes hy,

His cattell kept with that rude melody. 

And oft eke him that doth the heavens gyde

Hath love transformed to shapes for him too base.

Transmuted thus sometime a swan is he,

Leda taccoye, and of Europe to please,

A milde white bull, unwrinckled front and face,

Suffreth her play tyll on his back lepeth she,

Whom in great care he ferieth through the seas. 

– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by Anonymous (1557)