Larry Fink, an American photographer renowned for capturing class divisions through his lens of New York’s high society, has passed away at 82 in Pennsylvania. The news of his death was shared by New York’s Robert Mann Gallery, which represented him.
Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Fink used photography as a medium to champion an honest depiction of American racial and socioeconomic disparities. His six-decade career was influenced by the Marxist views of his mother, Sylvia Caplan Fink which shaped both his politics and aesthetics. Under the guidance of Lisette Model, the Austrian-American street photographer, Fink honed his skills at the New School in New York.
Initially rising to prominence in the late 1970s with “Social Graces,” a series juxtaposing the lives of a rural Pennsylvania family with New York’s elite. The collection, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, showcased his powerful perspective on societal contrast.
By 1976, Fink earned his first of two Guggenheim Fellowships as he further developed his signature high contrast, flash photography style. Since then, Fink has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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