Shirley Jaffe papers, circa 1950-2011

Photographic material includes photographs, slides, transparencies, and digital photographs. Subjects include Jaffe's artwork, exhibition installations, friends and family, the Funéraria commission, portraits of Jaffe, openings and artists, and travel. Artists and art world figures pictured in the photographs include Bill Rivers, Larry Rivers, Kimber Smith, Linda Nochlin, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, and others.

Photographs of artwork are primarily taken in Jaffe's studio and form the bulk of the series. There are multiple images of artwork at various stages of completion, and the documentation is focused particularly on the 1990s-2000s. Corresponding negatives accompany many of the photographs.

In addition to single images there is a set of photos (with a few negatives), and a set of transparencies housed in loose binder sheets that were presumably originally housed together. These are primarily images of single works of art, with scattered installation shots.

Photographs of artwork are arranged roughly chronologically by dates on the photo versos. Binder pages of photographs and transparencies have been left in their original order since it is not known if they were deliberately collated in a certain way.

The bulk of this series has been digitized. For photographs of artwork negatives of prints and some near duplicate images, such as multiple shots of a painting from the same angle, have not been digitized. Some photos of family and friends have not been digitized.