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Nov 03, 2009

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American photographer Larry Fink was born Nov. 3, 1941…

Fink has been dubbed the Kerouac of photographers, partly because he doesn’t shy away from the grimy aspects of life in his work. He also has a keen eye for class and its little games, as seen in the above shot…

Washington, D.C., February, 1975 - Gelatin Silver Print (Museum of Contemporary Photogrpahy)

“In his book Social Graces (1984), Larry Fink mentions the strong human desire to document in photographs our personal as well as our shared realities: “It is a profound aspect of our culture, this compulsion for proof. It allows me to wade into a party.” Fink’s images range from black-tie events in New York to celebrations of his working-class neighbors in Pennsylvania. Pat Sabatine’s Twelfth Birthday Party, May, 1981 features neither the celebrating child nor what Fink refers to as the “holy mess” of the Sabatine family kitchen, but simply an anonymous hand and the geometry of a gesture. Such intimacies underscore Fink’s belief that all of his subjects, regardless of social status, share the same underlyin

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