Larry Fink is a professional photographer of 50 plus years.

“Larry Fink, under the early tutelage of Lisette Model, developed a unique and offbeat style of empathetic reportage.  With his distinct visual and political perspective, he has explored the under-belly of human interaction in all its glory and demise.” (Katrina Doerner)

Currently a professor at Bard College, New York, Larry has held positions at Yale, Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and New York University.  His current work regularly appears in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and more.

Larry has received two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976 and 1979, and two National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, 2002.

Larry’s exhibition list is extensive and he continues to show his work both nationally and internationally. His most recent exhibitions include: a retrospective exhibition at the Andalusian Center of Photography in Almeria, Spain, an exhibition at Box Gallerie in Bruxelles, Belgium, The Contact Festival in Toronto, Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Schmidt/Dean in Philadelphia, PA, Wouter van Leeuwen Galerie in Amsterdam and Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There have also been retrospectives of his work at the Sheldon Art Gallery in St. Louis, Missori, as well as the Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

Larry has had one-person shows at the Museum of Modern Art, 1979, Les Rencontres de Photographie, Arles, France, 1993; Musee d l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1994; The Whitney Museum, 1997, Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, 1997.

In 2007, Larry had exhibited work which included; Larry Fink and George Grosz at the Heckscher Museum in Long Island, Somewhere There’s Music at the Gallery Forni in Milan, Italy, Somewhere There’s Music at the Museo de la Rosse in Bologna and the Museo Alinari in Florence, Italy and Logging The Olympic Peninsula at the Lorenselli Arte Gallery in Milan, Italy. 

Larry co-curated a show on Lisette Model and her influence on the world of photography for the Aperture Foundation that opened in September 2007. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Larry photographed an interactive exhibition where the images of the evening were projected on the wall in real time in the Temple of Dendur.  In February 2008 at Princeton University, he exhibited a mini study of poverty in America entitled, Diminishing Returns. 

In 2008 Larry photographed the political trails of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain.  These photographs were shown at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and at the Robert Klein Gallery. In 2009 he photographed the Orpheus Orchestra at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

Larry has had extensive published works and books including his most recent; The Vanities: Hollywood Parties 2000-2009 (Schirmer/Mosel 2011). Attraction and Desire: 50 Years in Photography (The Sheldon Art Galleries 2011), and Night at the Met (University of California Berkeley, (Blurb 2009).

Larry’s other published books includes: Social Graces (Aperture 1984, no longer in print); Boxing (Power House Books 1997); Fish and Wine, (Lafayette College, 1997); Runway (Power House Books 2000); a second publication of Social Graces (Power House Books 2001) which features images from Social Graces never published before; The Forbidden Pictures, a political satire on the Bush regime (Powerhouse Books 2004); Larry Fink, a small retrospective book (Phaidon 2005); Primal Elegance (Lodima Press 2006); and a book of music images, Somewhere There’s Music (Damiani Editore 2006). Larry commissioned a book from the Cleveland Clinic called Two Views (2006). In 2008 he created a high art, promotional book for the Frescobaldi Family in Italy.

Images are available as vintage silver prints in limited number and editioned archival inkjet prints. 

For more information or to purchase or exhibit work please contact  info@santafineart.com .

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