American photographer Larry Fink grew up on Long Island and studied photography with Lisette Model. He is known for the “snapshot aesthetic” of his photographs of people at charity galas, night clubs, parties, and other social occasions. More than sixty of his prints are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where he had his first solo show in 1979. Other solo shows include Boxing at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1997) and a retrospective at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (1994). Fink’s books include Social Graces (1984), Boxing (1997), and Runway (2001).
The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
This is a program for an October 26, 1898, production of Mirele Efros at the Thalia Theatre, located at 46–48 Bowery on New York City’s Lower East Side.
When this ostensibly quiet scene was photographed, Morocco was in the throes of a struggle for independence against its French occupiers. The uprising was becoming increasingly violent, with riots…