Larry Fink

Larry Fink

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Larry Fink is a professional photographer of 45 years. He has had one
man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of
Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Musee de la Lausanne
Photographie in Belgium, and the Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland,
amongst others. He shows in galleries regularly in New York, Los Angeles,
and Paris, France. Along with two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
in 1976 and 1979, and two National Endowment for the Arts,
Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986, he was awarded
an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies, College
of Art and Design, Detroit, 2002.
Larry has several books published including: Social Graces (Aperture
1984, no longer in print); Boxing (powerHouse Books 1997); Fish and
Wine, (Lafayette College, 1997); Runway (powerHouse Books 2000);
a second publication of Social Graces (powerHouse Books 2001)
which features images of that time never published before; The Forbidden
Pictures (powerHouse Books 2004) a political satire on the Bush regime;
Larry Fink (Phaidon 2005) a small retrospective
book; Primal Elegance (Lodima Press 2006); and
a book of music images Somewhere There's Music
(Damiani Editore 2006). Larry also has a commissioned
book from the Cleveland Clinic called Two
Views (2006). In 2008 he created a high art, promotional
book for the Frescobaldi Family in Italy.
His commercial work includes advertising campaigns
for Smirnoff, Bacardi, and Cunard Lines (Q.E.2). His
work has appeared in top publications such as Vanity
Fair, W, GQ, Detour, The New York Times Magazine,
and The New Yorker. He has been teaching for the
past 41 years, the last 16 years as a professor of
photography at Bard College.
Larry has had one-person shows at the Museum of
Modern Art, 1979, Les Rencontres de Photographie,
Arles, France, 1993; Musee d l'Elysee, Lausanne,
Switzerland, 1994; the Whitney Museum, 1997, Musee
de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, 1997; along
with gallery shows too numerous to mention over the last four decades.
More recently, in 2007, Larry has had several shows; «Larry Fink and
George Grosz» at the Heckscher Museum in Long Island, «Somewhere
There's Music» at the Gallery Forni in Milan, Italy, «Somewhere There's
Music» at the Museo de la Rosse in Bologna and the Museo Alinari in
Florence, Italy and «Logging, The Olympic Peninsula» at the Lorenselli
Arte Gallery in Milan, Italy. He also co-curated a show on Lisette Model
and her influence on the world of photography for the Aperture Foundation
that opened in September 2007. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Larry photographed an interactive exhibition where the images of the
evening were projected on the wall in real time in the Temple of Dendur.
In February 2008 at Princeton University, he exhibited a mini study of
poverty in America entitled «Diminishing Returns». Larry was commissioned
by Vanity Fair to cover the 2008 political trail of Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. These photographs were shown
at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and at the Robert Klein Gallery
in the Fall of 2008. His latest project, photographing the Orpheus
Orchestra is currently at Lafayette College until May, 2009.

2009 - 1973
American Cultural Embassy, Bruxelles, Belgium - Retrospective
Burden Gallery, NYC
Camerawork, Berlin, Germany
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
«The Democrats,» Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, New York
«Diminishing Returns,» Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
«Diminishing Returns,» Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
«Forbidden Pictures,» Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Galerie Breiting, Berlin
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris
Gallery Forum, Tarragona, Spain
Gallery Foto, Oslo, Norway
Haverford College, Bryn Mawr, PA - Retrospective
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two)
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Kunst Museum, Dusseldorf
«Larry Fink and George Grosz,» Heckscher Museum, Long Island
«Larry Fink: The Forbidden Pictures, A Political Tableau,» powerHouse Gallery, NYC
«Larry Fink, Photographs 1957-2001,» Vu Gallery, Paris, France - Retrospective
«Larry Fink: Social Graces,» Edwynn Houk Gallery, NYC
«Larry Fink: Somewhere There's Music,» Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, PA
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Les Rencontres de Photographie, Arles, France - Retrospective
Light Gallery, NYC
Logging, The Olympic Peninsula, Lorenzelli Arte Gallery, Milan, Italy
Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
Marvin Cone Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
Midtown Gallery, NYC
Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland - Retrospective
Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium - Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Photo Forum, Frankfurt, Germany - Retrospective
Portuguese Center for Photography, Porto, Portugal
Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI
«Runway,» Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
«Runway,» Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
San Francisco Museum of Art
Sander Gallery, NYC
Sanders Gallery, Washington, DC
Santa Barbara Contemporary ArtsForum, Santa Barbara, CA
Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
«Sense of Sound,» Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
«Social Graces,» Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
«Social Graces,» Yancey Richarson Gallery, NYC
«Somewhere There's Music,» Galleria Forni, Milan
«Somewhere There's Music,» Museo Alinari, Florence
«Somewhere There's Music,» Museum of Modern Art, Ville della Rose, Bologna, Italy
Stephen Cohen Gallery, LA, CA
«Theater Without a Plot, Runway,» Revolution Gallery, NYC
«Time Circles: Past and Present,» SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
Traveling show in Gap, Evry, and Tourcoing, France - Retrospective
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Werkstatt fur Photographie der VHS Kruezberg, Berlin
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Work Gallery, Zurich
Yale University School of Fine Arts, New Haven, CT
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC

2008 - 1970
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
American Images, Bell System traveling show and book
Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, OH
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
«Disco Years: A powerHouse Retrospective,» powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Dubois Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Fotosymposium, Milan
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
The Jewish Museum, NYC
Larry Miller Gallery, NYC
Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, NYC
Light Gallery, NYC
«Lisette Model and Her Successors,» Aperture Gallery, NYC
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Mannheim, Germany
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Midtown Y Gallery, NYC
MIT Gallery of Creative Photography, Boston, MA
Mizel Museum and Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
Museum of Modern Art, NYC (nine)
National Institute of Photography in the Netherlands
«New York at Night: Photographs from the Collection,» Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Open Lens Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
Prakapas Gallery, NYC
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
projectBLUE GALLERY, Easton, PA
«Road to Freedom,» High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Semana Internacional de la Fotografia, Guadelajara
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
«That 70s Show: New York City in the 1970s,» powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Traveling show in Tokoyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, College for Creative Studies,
College of Art and Design, Detroit, Michigan
The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography (two)
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowship (two)
Seattle Arts Council Grant
Society of Publishing Designers' Gold Medal, W Magazine
Tenured professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Walker Evans Visiting professor of Art, Yale School of Fine Arts