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"I love working with him. I can count on a picture that goes beyond the obvious, a picture that is both stylistically strong and in content reflects the story for which it has been taken." - Elisabeth Biondi, picture editor at New York Magazine
"Larry Fink's photographs are like the stage in a darkened theater. His hand-held flash splendidly illuminates the details of the drama before us and reveals the nuance of the personal moment," wrote Susan Kismaric, associate curator, Museum of Modern Art.
A practitioner of the "snapshot aesthetic", Larry Fink is catalogued with the esteemed ranks of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand. He first picked up the camera at the age of thirteen. He found that taking pictures relaxed the inhibitions of introduction, making social interactions a thing of ease. Amid the crowd, rather than outside it, Fink is not a voyeur, but rather his work speaks a visual vernacular. The results of his tutelage with Lisette Model is that his pictures tend to expose the flaws in the polished façades we all present in the public arena. Fink's images often display the sensitive core of interpersonal-relationships, prevalent despite social posturing, whether mingled among unctuous characters at a high-society benefit or a down-home potluck setting of family.
Larry Fink has more than 60 prints in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Most of these pictures are from his first one-man show there in 1979. He has 8 prints currently hanging in the MOMA's new show "Museum As Muse." In 1997 his one-man show "Boxing" opened at The Whitney Museum in New York. He has received two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA endowments, and presently has a career retrospective touring the museums of Europe. Larry Fink's published books include Social Graces, from his MOMA show, and Boxing from his Whitney show. In February 2000, Larry Fink's newest book Runway was released. In September 2001, Social Graces was re-released in conjunction with shows in Paris, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Editorially, Larry Fink is under contract to Conde Nast and works for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. In May, 1997 he won the SPD gold medal with Dennis Freedman at W Magazine for his story looking at the world behind the scenes at fashion shows. His advertising portfolio includes campaigns for Cunard, Chivas Regal, Smirnoff, Godiva, Nike, Adidas, Baccardi, W Hotels, MasterCard and Bank of New York.
Larry Fink is a tenured professor of photography at Bard College.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
| 2001 | Vu Gallery,
Paris, France - Retrospective Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | Hunterdon
Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI Revolution Gallery, NYC Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 | Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1998-99 | Traveling show in Gap, Evry, and Tourcoing, France - Retrospective |
| 1998 | Jan Kesner
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Retrospective Portuguese Center for Photography, Porto, Portuga |
| 1997 | Yancey
Richardson Gallery, NYC Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium — Retrospective |
| 1995 | Photo
Forum, Frankfurt, Germany - Retrospective Porto, Portugal |
| 1994 | Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland - Retrospective |
| 1993 | Silver
Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Les Rencontres de Photographie, Arles, France - Retrospective Gallery Forum, Tarragona, Spain Newberger Museum, Purchase, NY |
| 1992 | Catherine
Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL Vigo, Spain |
| 1989 | Gallery Foto, Osio, Norway |
| 1987 | American
Cultural Embassy, Bruxelles, Belgium - Retrospective Haverford College, Bryn Mawr, PA — Retrospective |
| 1986 | Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1985 | Burden
Gallery, NYC Gallery Forum, Tarragona, Spain |
| 1984 | Sander Gallery, NYC |
| 1983 | Marcus
Pfeifer Gallery, NYC Werkstatt fur Photographie der VHS Kruezberg, Berlin |
| 1981 | San Francisco
Museum of Art Kunst Museum, Dusseldorf |
| 1980 | Work Gallery,
Zurich Light Gallery, NYC |
| 1979 | Museum
of Modern Art, NYC Sanders Gallery, Washington, DC Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Breiting, Berlin |
| 1978 | Sanders
Gallery, Washington, DC Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA |
| 1977 | Yale University,
New Haven, CT Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ |
| 1976 | Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1975 | Midtown Gallery, NYC |
| 1973 | Yale University School of Fine Arts, New Haven, CT |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2000 | Museum
of Modern Art, NYC Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, NYC |
| 1999 | Museum of Modern Art, NYC |
| 1998-99 | Traveling show in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, Japan |
| 1998 | Louvre
Museum, Paris, France Museum of Modern Art, NYC Larry Miller Gallery, NYC |
| 1994 | National Institute of Photography in the Netherlands |
| 1993 | Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA |
| 1992 | Museum of Modern Art, NYC |
| 1991 | Museum
of Modern Art, NYC Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA |
| 1989 | Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1987 | Light Gallery, NYC |
| 1985 | Semana
Internacional de la Fotografia, Guadelajara Fotosymposium, Milan Dubois Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Allentown Museum, Allentown, PA Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA |
| 1983 | Allentown Museum, Allentown, PA |
| 1981 | Museum of Modern Art, NYC |
| 1979-80 | American Images, Bell System traveling show and book |
| 1979 | Allentown Museum, Allentown, PA |
| 1978 | University
of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Museum of Modern Art, NYC Light Gallery, NYC Prakapas Gallery, NYC UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1975 | Visual
Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Midtown Y Gallery, NYC |
| 1973 | Midtown Y Gallery, NYC |
| 1972 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 1970 | Museum
of Modern Art, NYC MIT Gallery of Creative Photography, Boston, MA |
Collections:
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Gov. Dept of Photography, Lisbon, Portugal
Foto Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Portland Museum of Art, ME
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Boston Museum of Fine Art, MA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum, LA
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Los Angeles Museum of Art, CA
Seattle Museum of Art, WA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Smithsonian Museum, Washington
Selected Awards and Positions:
| 1999 | Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography |
| 1997 | Society of Publishing Designers’ Gold Medal, W Magazine |
1993-Present |
Tenured professor, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY |
| 1986-87 | National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowship |
| 1980 |
Seattle Arts Council Grant |
| 1979, 1976 | The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography |
| 1978-79 | Walker
Evans Visiting Professor of Art, Yale School of Fine Arts National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowship |
Books:
| 2001 | Social Graces (Re-Release) — Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment |
| 2000 | Runway - Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment |
| 1997 | Boxing
- Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment Fish and Wine - Lafayette College |
| 1996 | Uma Cidade Assi - Camara Municipal De Matosinhos |
| 1984 | Social Graces - Aperture |
Selected Reviews and Articles:
| 1998 | Los
Angeles Times, "Suitable for Social Framing," September Art Issues, November/December Artforum International: The Best of 1998, December |
| 1997 | The
Philadelphia Inquirer, September The New York Times, July |
| 1993 | Globe,
Paris, July International Herald Tribune, July Le Figaro, Paris, July Le Monde, Paris, July |
| 1989 | American Photographer, September |
| 1987 | Savvy, "Mob Appeal," February Lear’s, "Backroom Boys," January |
| 1986 | Manhattan,
Inc., "Permanent Wave," September Manhattan, Inc., "All About Atavros," November Village Voice, Beth Bernstein, November Village Voice, Beth Bernstein, September Village Voice, Beth Bernstein, August Manhattan, Inc., "The Ringleader," April Cliches, "Impressions d’Amerique," March |
| 1985 | Photographic, "Intuitive Light," Franklin
Cameron, August Photographic Society of America Journal, "Two Worlds," June San Francisco Camera Works, book Review of Social Graces, August Village Voice View, "The Palladium," a fashion shooting Manhattan, Inc., "The Maine Event," August |
| 1983 | Village
Voice, October New York Times, Sunday Section, Andy Grunberg, October |
| 1980 | Picture Magazine, Issue 15, Carter Ratcliff, July |
| 1979 | Art
in America, "The Lights and Darks of Living it Up,"
Max Kozloff, September Creatis, "New York's People Not Working," Christian Schlatter, November Washington Star, October Washington Post, October Modern Photography, October Soho Weekly News, Andy Grunberg, September New York TImes, "When the Camera Produces Fiction," Gene Thornton Village Voice, "That's Entertainment," Ben Lifson, September |
| 1978 | Forms, Lehigh University, Ricardo Viera |
| 1977 | Progresso Photographico, Roberto Sabatini, Milan |
| 1975 | Village Voice, Fred McDarrah, April |
| 1973 | Boston Review of the Arts, Carl Belz, January |
| 1972 | Village Voice, "Six Photographers View Reality," A.D. Coleman, October |
| 1960 | Village Voice, Carol Schwalberg, March |
Selected Teaching Positions:
| 1986-Present | Bard College, Professor of Photography, Annandale on the Hudson, NY |
| 1995 | School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, NYC |
| 1994 | Yale School of Fine Arts, MFA Program, New Haven, CT |
| 1987 | New York University, NYC |
| 1978-83 | The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC |
| 1977-78 | Yale School of Fine Arts, Walker Evans Professor of Photography, New Haven, CT |
| 1968-72 |
The New School, NYC |
