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Larry Fink
Harlem, New York City, September 1964, 1964/2021
Archival pigment print, 22 x 17 inches
AP, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $7,500
Larry Fink formed a photography program for the social activist organization HARYOU-ACT (Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Trust). Most of his days were spent uptown. This picture is from that period.
Image courtesy of Geoffrey Berliner, Penumbra Foundation
About the Artist:
Larry Fink
Working as a professional photographer for over 60 years, Larry Fink has had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. He has shown work in museums all over the world. Larry currently has a retrospective of his work at Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, Germany. He recently exhibited a retrospective of his work at Fotografia Europea in Italy, and also had a 2019 solo show at the deCordova Sculpture Park Museum in Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In 2017, Larry was the recipient of the Lucie Award for Documentary Photography. In 2015, he received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Fine Art Photography. He has also been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowships. He taught for over 50 years, with professorial positions held at Yale University, New Haven, CT; Cooper Union, New York; and lastly at Bard College, New York, where he is an honored professor emeritus.
Larry’s first monograph, the seminal Social Graces (Aperture, 1984), left a lasting impression in the photographic community. Twelve other monographs have been published, with the subject matter crossing the class barrier in unexpected ways. Two of his most recently published books were on several “Best Of” lists of the year: The Beats (Artiere/powerhouse) and Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation (Aperture). Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s (2017) features rare photographs of Andy Warhol and his friends at the Factory interspersed with street scenes and the political atmosphere of 1960s New York. Also released in 2017 was The Polarities, chronicling five years of recent work, and The Outpour, containing images taken at and around the Women’s March on Washington, DC.
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