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Arthur Jafa (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ f ə /; born Arthur Jafa Fielder, November 30, 1960) is an American video artist and cinematographer.
American, born 1960. “I’m really not manipulating. the images, I’m. manipulating the gap in. between the images.” The late cultural critic Greg Tate described his longtime friend Arthur Jafa as having an “obsession with witnessing through images.” 1 Jafa’s relentless gaze draws chaos and dissonance into focus.
Dec 14, 2020 · Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation. The filmmaker left an art world he found too white; years later, he made a triumphant return with “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.” By Calvin...
Aug 14, 2019 · Arthur Jafa in Bloom - The New York Times. Sought after by Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, and Solange Knowles alike, the visual artist is changing representations of blackness in museums and...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Arthur Jafa cast a replacement actor, right, as the pimp in “Taxi Driver,” originally played by Harvey Keitel, then skillfully wove in the new footage and rerecorded the voices. via...
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Jun 23, 2023 · Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) is an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being.
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Jafa was the director of photography for the mythological and dreamlike ”Daughters of the Dust” (1991) directed by Julie Dash, which won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival. It was the first film by an African-American woman to get distribution over the entire USA.
