Fink is my Friday Favorite
Larry Fink is the American born photographer most well known for his hand held flash, which captures the candid moments of celebrities and common-folk alike. From the age of 13 on, Fink found that social participation was less stressful behind his lens. Indeed, Fink’s images do not portray an outsider looking in, but instead, an active player in the moment he captures. His work is very well known, and is housed in such prestigious institutions as MOMA, site of his first one-man show in 1979, as well as the Whitney and the Guggenheim. But these anecdotes, impressive as they may be, don’t amount to the reason behind his greatness. In my opinion his greatness as a photo...Read more