Ode to Larry Fink

One of my favorite photographers is Larry Fink. "Larry Fink's photographs are like the stage in a darkened theater. His hand-held flash splendidly illuminates the details of the drama before us and reveals the nuance of the personal moment," wrote Susan Kismaric, associate curator, Museum of Modern Art. Larry has been photographing for almost fifty-one years and teaching for forty-one. He has received two Guggenheim fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. He has had one-man exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A major retrospective of his work was on tour in Europe for almost ten years visiting more museums than it is possible to mention.

Yet as this video shows, done by Journeyman productions, is he lives an amazingly simple life out in the country, and guess what, only uses film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izJ0_yTFBo

Here are just a few of his photos: