Larry Fink

Larry Fink is born in Brooklyn in 1941. He studies briefly at the New School for Social Research, where Lisette Model becomes his mentor.

He is best known for black and white photographs of people at parties and other social gatherings. His series Social Graces sets posh Manhattan society beside the townspeople of rural Pennsylvania; it is shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and published as a book in 1984.

He teaches at the Yale School of Art, at Cooper Union, and, from 1994, at Bard College. He receives Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976 and 1979, and the Lucie Award for documentary photography in 2017. He lives and works in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.