Lee Jaffe is an artist, photographer and record producer.
He has produced recordings for his longtime friends Joe Higgs and Barrington Levy.
As a multimedia artist, Jaffe has had major exhibitions of his work, includingsolo shows at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and theIkon Gallery, Birmingham, England, among many others.
In 2003, Norton & Company published a monograph on the artist entitled "One Love", which features Jaffe's photographs included in this exhibition.
Lee Jaffe lives in Los Angeles, CA and continues to divide his time between successful careers in the fine arts and music.
MB Fine Art Los Angeles is pleased to present Reggae Rising, an exhibition of photographs by multimedia artistLee Jaffe. In Reggae Rising, Jaffe poignantly captures the spirit of the reggae movement in Jamaica with compelling photographs of legendary artist Bob Marley and the Wailers before and during their rise to international acclaim.
In 1973, a chance meeting in a New York City hotel between a twenty-three year-old rising star in the conceptual art movement named Lee Jaffe and the soon-to-be reggae icon Bob Marley would lead to afriendship and collaboration that would change both of their lives. Marley gave Jaffe a copy of his soon to bereleased album Catch a Fire. For Jaffe, having just seen The Harder They Come (the first movie to bring reggae to a global audience starring reggae icon Jimmy Cliff), “it was l...