Social Graces

Photographs show dances, birthday parties, graduation parties, graduation ceremonies, baptisms, weddings, debutante balls, dinner parties, gallery openings, and nightclubs

Arts & Photography

FINK, Larry

Photography & Video

Aperture

Fueled by the author’s curiosity and rage against the privileged class, Social Graces contrasts New York’s jet set with the rituals and gatherings of rural Pennsylvania. “Fink’s photographs provide the opportunity to study a gesture, a smile, a surreptitious glance.” — Susan Kismaric, associate curator, The Museum of Modern Art

Social graces

Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin

Opening the Sky

STANLEY/BARKER

Signed by Larry Fink. Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1997. Original wraps. Book Condition: Very Good. Catalogue based on the September 1997 exhibition at Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Light scuffing to covers. Square octavo, 14 black and white reproductions over 21 pages. Rare.

Fish and wine: Larry Fink's photographs of Portugal

Lafayette College, Art Gallery, Williams Center for the Arts

Muscles and sweat. Hope and fear. Determination. Exhilaration. Desperation. Larry Fink's crisp images capture the drama in and out of the ring, and they pack a wallop. They also present a powerful argument for the superiority of black-and-white photography over color, which would have weakened their impact considerably. You don't have to be a fan of this brutal sport to appreciate Fink's artistry. Award-winning sportswriter Bert Sugar's essay on the history of boxing is a nice complement to the illustrations.

Boxing

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Power House Books

Runway

<br><br>In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a book. Its goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of the featured photographer. In this book, Larry Fink—well-known for his layered pictures in social settings—explores composing photographs and improvising within a scene to create images with both feeling and meaning. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, from connecting with the subject in front of the lens to shaping a vision that is authentic. Photographer Lisa Kereszi, a student of Larry Fink, provides the introduction.

Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series

<p>Celebrated as a photographer of the people, Larry Fink is known for his impromptu, street-style black-and-white photographs that delve into societal complexities, class divides, and the essence of human connection. Throughout his career, which spanned from the 1950s to his passing in November 2023, Fink documented a broad spectrum of subjects, spanning from the glamorous scenes of Vanity Fair Oscar parties to the streets of impoverished Philadelphia neighbourhoods. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to authentically portraying the human experience across diverse communities. Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking presents a comprehensive exploration of Fink's remarkable career for the first time. Over his lifetime, Fink meticulously stored his images in boxes, where they often remained forgotten for months or even years. However, during the pandemic, Fink dedicated himself to combing through these boxes with the dream of creating a retrospective of his work: photographs and beat-style poetry. This endeavour gained momentum when Daniel Power, founder of powerHouse Books and a longtime collaborator of Fink, photographers Jonno Rattman and Jamie Cabreza, and art director Yolanda Cuomo joined Fink in his archival journey. They unearthed a trove of unseen treasures, resulting in a meticulously curated 432-page testament to Fink's unparalleled creativity alongside his trademark jazz poetry. Fink's vast repertoire includes photographs of celebrities like Jay-Z and Meryl Streep, protesters marching down streets, and boxers in the ring (Including a look into his other books, Boxing (1998), Runway (2000), Social Graces (2001), Forbidden Pictures (2004), and The Beats (2014)). This book reaches even further by including non-human subjects like intimate portraits of insects in their natural habitat and dead animals grotesquely displayed. Larry Fink's distinctive signature - his raw and experimental approach, his spontaneity, his interest in class commentary, and his intimate perspective - are presented in a manner unprecedented in his body of work, applied to subject matter viewers have rarely seen Fink tackle. Each image, painstakingly selected, offers a poignant insight into Fink's unwavering commitment to his craft and insatiable curiosity about the world.</p>

Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking

Individual Artists

powerHouse Books

A series of beautiful, yet affordable photography books of previously unpublished work by leading and emerging contemporary photographers. Each book in the series contains from 10 to 18 photographs and includes a statement by the photographer. These books are printed to the high standards for which Lodima Press is known-600-line screen quadtone on heavy cover stock, insuring that the reproductions are true to the originals. The books are published in a softbound edition of 1,000 and a signed and numbered hardbound edition of 100. Each softbound book in the series is inexpensively priced at only $24.95, and only $19.95 to subscribers to the entire series. Hardbound copies are $100 and available to subscribers only. This affordable series of books is in the tradition of artists' small books and represents an important contribution to the photographic literature. This series belongs in the library of all lovers of fine photography books. We invite you to subscribe to this series. Subscrib

Primal Elegance

Gazelle Distribution Trade

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Social Graces

Social graces

Opening the Sky

Fish and wine: Larry Fink's photographs of Portugal

Boxing

Runway

Social Graces

Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation: The Photography Workshop Series

Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking

Primal Elegance