LARB Reviews Hands On by the Late Larry Fink, Professor Emeritus of Photography

A assessment of a guide by Professor Emeritus of Photography Larry Fink (1941–2023) was printed within the Los Angeles Review of Books. Yael Friedman discusses how Fink’s most up-to-date guide, Hands On: A Passionate Life of Looking, which was printed posthumously and is a survey of his profession over six many years, places his road images alongside extra well-known pictures of civil rights activists whereas showcasing beforehand unpublished photos from almost 30 monographs. The guide contains an essay from Lucy Sante, a former Bard school member who curated the exhibit Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy on the Center for Photography at Woodstock. “Larry clearly didn’t see social events as a disposable theme,” she writes. “For him, they were life itself.”

The guide is one in all a number of tasks which Fink, who spent years working as a solo photographer earlier than coming to show at Bard’s photography program in 1988, had begun whereas he was nonetheless alive however have been accomplished posthumously. “A monumental book, a beautiful short film, and his first joint exhibition with his wife, artist Martha Posner, provide a richer portrait of him as a person and unveil new facets of his work as an artist,” writes Friedman in his assessment. “We can now (almost) fully see how he managed the near-impossible.”

Post Date: 08-05-2025