Larry Fink

Larry Fink is an American photographer known for his black-and-white images of American society. In his seminal series Social Graces, Fink explored the contrasting worlds of posh Manhattanites and rural Pennsylvanian townspeople during the late 1970s. “Some people mistake my work for satire. I don't object because satire is a powerful force, so if the work is seen that way it serves one function,” he has explained. “But I don't agree. The pictures are taken in the spirit of finding myself in the other, or finding the other in myself.” Born on March 11, 1941 in Brooklyn, NY, he went on to study under the photographer Lisette Model at the New School of Social Research in New York in the 1960s. In 1976 and 1979, the photographer received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Fink’s photographs have made appearances in many popular publications, including GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Detour, and The New Yorker. He continues to live and work in New York, NY.