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Larry Fink (photographer)

March 03, 2023

Larry Fink (born March 11, 1941) is an American photographer best known for his black-and-white images of people at parties and in other social situations.

Larry Fink
Born (1941-03-11) March 11, 1941 (age 81)
Brooklyn, New York City, US
EducationThe New School for Social Research
OccupationPhotographer

Life and career

Fink was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Bernard Fink, was a lawyer, and mother, Sylvia Caplan Fink, was an anti-nuclear weapon activist and an elder rights activist for the Gray Panthers. His younger sister was noted lawyer Elizabeth Fink (1945–2015).[1] He grew up in a politically conscious household and has described himself as "a Marxist from Long Island."[2][3] He studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where photographer Lisette Model was one of his teachers and encouraged his work.[2][4]

He has been on the faculty of Bard College since 1986. Earlier he taught at other institutions including the Yale University School of Art (1977–1978), Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture (1978–1983), Parsons School of Design, and New York University.[2][4][5]

Larry Fink left his longtime photography agency Bill Charles Represents on May 23, 2012.

Works

Fink's best-known work is Social Graces, a series of photographs he produced in the 1970s that depicted and contrasted wealthy Manhattanites at fashionable clubs and social events alongside working-class people from rural Pennsylvania participating in events such as high school graduations. Social Graces was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and was published in book form in 1984.[2][6] A New York Times reviewer described the series as exploring social class by comparing "two radically divergent worlds", while accomplishing "one of the things that straight photography does best: provid[ing] excruciatingly intimate glimpses of real people and their all-too-fallibly-human lives."[6]

In 2001, for an assignment from The New York Times Magazine, Fink created a series of satirical color images of President George W. Bush and his cabinet (portrayed by stand-ins) in scenes of decadent revelry modeled on paintings by Weimar-era painters Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz. The planned publication of the series was canceled after the September 11 attacks, but was displayed in the summer of 2004 at the PowerHouse Gallery in New York, in a show titled "The Forbidden Pictures: A Political Tableau."[7]

Awards and honors

Fink was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976[8] and 1979 and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.[5]

Publications

 
Six books by Larry Fink (flanked by irrelevant Pelicans); from left to right: Social Graces (1984), Social Graces (1999), Runway, The Forbidden Pictures, Primal Elegance, Boxing
  • Photographs. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981. Booklet accompanying an exhibition by Fink and Joel Sternfeld.
  • Ist Fotografie Kunst? Gehört Fotografie ins Museum? "Internationales Fotosymposion 1981, Schloss Mickeln bei Düsseldorf." Munich: Mahnert-Lueg, 1982. ISBN 3922170250. Contribution by Fink.
  • Social Graces. Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1984. ISBN 0-89381-135-1 (clothbound); ISBN 0-89381-159-9 (collectors' edition); ISBN 0-89381-201-3 (softcover).
  • Focus Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1985. Catalogue for an exhibition, September–October 1985, by Fink, Walter Cotton, Lee Friedlander, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, and Richard Ross.
  • Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991. Edited by Peter Galassi, contribution by Fink.
  • Still Working: Underknown Artists of Age in America. [New York]: Parsons School of Design, New York, 1994. ISBN 0295973854. Edited by Stewart Shedletsky; photographs by Fink; essays by Ann Gibson.
  • Waking the Wood: Martha Posner: January 19 through March 2, 1995. Allentown, PA: Frank Martin Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, [1995]. OCLC 630168745 Booklet with an introduction and photographs by Larry Fink, essay by J.M. Welker.
  • Uma cidade assim. Matosinhos: Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, 1996. ISBN 9729143234. Photographs by Fink and Bruno Sequeira.[n 1]
  • Boxing. New York: PowerHouse, 1997. ISBN 1-57687-008-1 (regular edition); ISBN 1-57687-009-X (limited edition). By Fink. Introduction by Andy Grundberg; essay by Bert Randolph Sugar.
  • Fish and Wine: Larry Fink's Photographs of Portugal. Easton, PA: Lafayette College, Art Gallery, Williams Center for the Arts, 1997. ISBN 0966032209. Booklet to accompany an exhibition held in September 1997 at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and October–November 1997 at Gateway Center IV, Newark, New Jersey. With an essay by George E. Panichas.
  • Rent. New York: William Morrow, 1997. ISBN 0688154379. About the musical Rent; by Jonathan Larson et al.; photography by Fink and Stewart Ferebee.
  • Ellis Island: Echoes from a Nation's Past. New York: Aperture, 1997. ISBN 0893813974. With photographs by Fink and others.
  • Runway. New York: PowerHouse, 1999. ISBN 1-57687-027-8 (regular edition); ISBN 157687-028-6 (limited edition). By Fink, with an introduction by Guy Trebay.
  • A City Seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002. ISBN 0940717689. Contribution by Fink.
  • The Forbidden Pictures: Photographs. New York: PowerHouse, 2004. ISBN 1-57687-244-0. Twelve photographs by Fink, with texts by Fink and others.
  • Woolrich Roadtrip 2004, New York, NY to Woolrich, PA. Woolrich, PA: Woolrich, 2004.
  • Larry Fink. Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2005. ISBN 071484022X. By Laurie Dahlberg.
  • Primal Elegance. Portfolio Book Series, no. 6. Revere, PA: Lodima, 2005. ISBN 1-888899-29-8. Edition of 1000. Fourteen photographs by Fink of mantises.
  • Somewhere There's Music. Bologna: Damiani, 2006. ISBN 8889431563; ISBN 8889431628. By Fink, with an essay by George E. Panichas.
  • Cleveland Clinic: Two Views. Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic, 2006. ISBN 0979082706. Photographs by Fink and Andrew Moore.
  • Effetto Luce. Florence: Luce della Vite, 2007. The publisher's description: "In 2007 Luce della Vite, the Montalcino wine producer hosted an gala event with international media and guests, including celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, wine and business, arrive in Florence to celebrate launch of new Luce wine at the prestigious Villa i Collazzi in Florence on Saturday night and photographer Larry Fink captured the most significant moments of the Effetto Luce evening."
  • Night at the Met. N.p. Fotovision, 2009. Photographs by Fink of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • The Vanities: Hollywood Parties 2000–2009: Photographs. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2011. ISBN 3829605269. By Fink, with essays by Lucy Sante and Ash Carter, text in English and German.
  • Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire: 50 Years in Photography. Saint Louis, MO: The Sheldon Art Galleries, [2011]. ISBN 0578077388. Accompanying an exhibition at the Sheldon Art Galleries, February–May 2011. With an essay by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales.
  • Contatti. Provini d'Autore = Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome: Postcart, 2012. ISBN 978-88-86795-87-6. Contribution by Fink.
  • Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 1597112739. With an introduction by Lisa Kereszi.
  • The Beats. Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse, 2014. ISBN 1576876896. Photographs by Fink of the beats, with an essay and poem by Gerald Stern and an essay by Robert Cordier.
  • Kindred Spirits. Minor Matters, 2014. By Fink, with an essay by Peter Barberie.
  • Opening the Sky. London: Stanley Barker, 2015. ISBN 9780956992239.

Notes

  1. ^ A companion volume (ISBN 9729143242) has photographs by Gabriele Basilico and Augusto Alves da Silva.

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Sam (September 24, 2015). "Elizabeth M. Fink, a Lawyer for Attica Inmates and Radicals, Dies at 70". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d . Archived from the original on April 14, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  3. ^ "Visura Magazine » LARRY FINK | The Beats".
  4. ^ a b Larry Fink, American, born 1941, Museum of Contemporary Photography
  5. ^ a b (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ a b Johnson, Ken (September 28, 2001). "ART IN REVIEW; Larry Fink -- 'Social Graces' (Published 2001)" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ Johnson, Ken (July 2, 2004). "ART IN REVIEW; Larry Fink (Published 2004)" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Guggenheim Foundation Fellows list, accessed September 25, 2010

External links

  • Larry Fink Photography
  • Larry Fink on artnet Monographs

March 03, 2023
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Larry Fink born March 11 1941 is an American photographer best known for his black and white images of people at parties and in other social situations Larry FinkBorn 1941 03 11 March 11 1941 age 81 Brooklyn New York City USEducationThe New School for Social ResearchOccupationPhotographer Contents 1 Life and career 2 Works 3 Awards and honors 4 Publications 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksLife and career EditFink was born in 1941 in Brooklyn New York His father Bernard Fink was a lawyer and mother Sylvia Caplan Fink was an anti nuclear weapon activist and an elder rights activist for the Gray Panthers His younger sister was noted lawyer Elizabeth Fink 1945 2015 1 He grew up in a politically conscious household and has described himself as a Marxist from Long Island 2 3 He studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City where photographer Lisette Model was one of his teachers and encouraged his work 2 4 He has been on the faculty of Bard College since 1986 Earlier he taught at other institutions including the Yale University School of Art 1977 1978 Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture 1978 1983 Parsons School of Design and New York University 2 4 5 Larry Fink left his longtime photography agency Bill Charles Represents on May 23 2012 Works EditFink s best known work is Social Graces a series of photographs he produced in the 1970s that depicted and contrasted wealthy Manhattanites at fashionable clubs and social events alongside working class people from rural Pennsylvania participating in events such as high school graduations Social Graces was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and was published in book form in 1984 2 6 A New York Times reviewer described the series as exploring social class by comparing two radically divergent worlds while accomplishing one of the things that straight photography does best provid ing excruciatingly intimate glimpses of real people and their all too fallibly human lives 6 In 2001 for an assignment from The New York Times Magazine Fink created a series of satirical color images of President George W Bush and his cabinet portrayed by stand ins in scenes of decadent revelry modeled on paintings by Weimar era painters Max Beckmann Otto Dix and George Grosz The planned publication of the series was canceled after the September 11 attacks but was displayed in the summer of 2004 at the PowerHouse Gallery in New York in a show titled The Forbidden Pictures A Political Tableau 7 Awards and honors EditFink was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976 8 and 1979 and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986 In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit 5 Publications Edit Six books by Larry Fink flanked by irrelevant Pelicans from left to right Social Graces 1984 Social Graces 1999 Runway The Forbidden Pictures Primal Elegance Boxing Photographs San Francisco San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1981 Booklet accompanying an exhibition by Fink and Joel Sternfeld Ist Fotografie Kunst Gehort Fotografie ins Museum Internationales Fotosymposion 1981 Schloss Mickeln bei Dusseldorf Munich Mahnert Lueg 1982 ISBN 3922170250 Contribution by Fink Social Graces Millerton New York Aperture 1984 ISBN 0 89381 135 1 clothbound ISBN 0 89381 159 9 collectors edition ISBN 0 89381 201 3 softcover Social Graces New York PowerHouse 1999 ISBN 1 57687 048 0 regular edition ISBN 1 57687 049 9 limited edition Larger format and redesigned with an introductory text first published in 1979 by Max Kozloff Focus Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum 1985 Catalogue for an exhibition September October 1985 by Fink Walter Cotton Lee Friedlander Mary Ellen Mark Richard Misrach and Richard Ross Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort New York The Museum of Modern Art 1991 Edited by Peter Galassi contribution by Fink Still Working Underknown Artists of Age in America New York Parsons School of Design New York 1994 ISBN 0295973854 Edited by Stewart Shedletsky photographs by Fink essays by Ann Gibson Waking the Wood Martha Posner January 19 through March 2 1995 Allentown PA Frank Martin Gallery Baker Center for the Arts Muhlenberg College 1995 OCLC 630168745 Booklet with an introduction and photographs by Larry Fink essay by J M Welker Uma cidade assim Matosinhos Camara Municipal de Matosinhos 1996 ISBN 9729143234 Photographs by Fink and Bruno Sequeira n 1 Boxing New York PowerHouse 1997 ISBN 1 57687 008 1 regular edition ISBN 1 57687 009 X limited edition By Fink Introduction by Andy Grundberg essay by Bert Randolph Sugar Fish and Wine Larry Fink s Photographs of Portugal Easton PA Lafayette College Art Gallery Williams Center for the Arts 1997 ISBN 0966032209 Booklet to accompany an exhibition held in September 1997 at Lafayette College Easton Pennsylvania and October November 1997 at Gateway Center IV Newark New Jersey With an essay by George E Panichas Rent New York William Morrow 1997 ISBN 0688154379 About the musical Rent by Jonathan Larson et al photography by Fink and Stewart Ferebee Ellis Island Echoes from a Nation s Past New York Aperture 1997 ISBN 0893813974 With photographs by Fink and others Runway New York PowerHouse 1999 ISBN 1 57687 027 8 regular edition ISBN 157687 028 6 limited edition By Fink with an introduction by Guy Trebay A City Seen Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection Cleveland The Cleveland Museum of Art 2002 ISBN 0940717689 Contribution by Fink The Forbidden Pictures Photographs New York PowerHouse 2004 ISBN 1 57687 244 0 Twelve photographs by Fink with texts by Fink and others Woolrich Roadtrip 2004 New York NY to Woolrich PA Woolrich PA Woolrich 2004 Larry Fink Phaidon 55 London Phaidon 2005 ISBN 071484022X By Laurie Dahlberg Primal Elegance Portfolio Book Series no 6 Revere PA Lodima 2005 ISBN 1 888899 29 8 Edition of 1000 Fourteen photographs by Fink of mantises Somewhere There s Music Bologna Damiani 2006 ISBN 8889431563 ISBN 8889431628 By Fink with an essay by George E Panichas Cleveland Clinic Two Views Cleveland Cleveland Clinic 2006 ISBN 0979082706 Photographs by Fink and Andrew Moore Effetto Luce Florence Luce della Vite 2007 The publisher s description In 2007 Luce della Vite the Montalcino wine producer hosted an gala event with international media and guests including celebrities from the worlds of entertainment fashion wine and business arrive in Florence to celebrate launch of new Luce wine at the prestigious Villa i Collazzi in Florence on Saturday night and photographer Larry Fink captured the most significant moments of the Effetto Luce evening Night at the Met N p Fotovision 2009 Photographs by Fink of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Vanities Hollywood Parties 2000 2009 Photographs Munich Schirmer Mosel 2011 ISBN 3829605269 By Fink with essays by Lucy Sante and Ash Carter text in English and German Larry Fink Attraction and Desire 50 Years in Photography Saint Louis MO The Sheldon Art Galleries 2011 ISBN 0578077388 Accompanying an exhibition at the Sheldon Art Galleries February May 2011 With an essay by Olivia Lahs Gonzales Contatti Provini d Autore Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet Vol I Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis Rome Postcart 2012 ISBN 978 88 86795 87 6 Contribution by Fink Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation New York Aperture 2014 ISBN 1597112739 With an introduction by Lisa Kereszi The Beats Brooklyn NY PowerHouse 2014 ISBN 1576876896 Photographs by Fink of the beats with an essay and poem by Gerald Stern and an essay by Robert Cordier Kindred Spirits Minor Matters 2014 By Fink with an essay by Peter Barberie Opening the Sky London Stanley Barker 2015 ISBN 9780956992239 Notes Edit A companion volume ISBN 9729143242 has photographs by Gabriele Basilico and Augusto Alves da Silva References Edit Roberts Sam September 24 2015 Elizabeth M Fink a Lawyer for 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