Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, PA
1991 · Gelatin silver print
14 3/4 × 14 1/2" (37.5 × 36.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Larry Fink
American, 1941
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8
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122
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156
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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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NEA Twentieth Anniversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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People Watching
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Larry Fink was an American photographer known for black-and-white images of working-class life, urban streets, and social gatherings captured with a decisive, unflinching eye. His grainy, high-contrast prints from the 1960s onward documented everyday moments infused with psychological tension and formal precision. Fink's practice eschewed the aestheticized documentary mode of his era in favor of raw, immediate observation. His work has been held in major American collections and shaped subsequent generations of socially engaged photographers.
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