BODY AND SOUL. LARRY FINK

The major retrospective exhibition "Body and Soul" of the famous American photographer Larry Fink, presents his famous images of some of the most famous celebrities in the United States shaking hands with snapshots of anonymous characters that reflect reality and contrasts of American society.

In 1970, John Szarkowski includes the most of the images of Larry Fink at MoMA, the beginning of a series of exhibitions in the most important European and American museums.

His different works share several constants: the empathetic attachment of the photographer towards a pervasive sensuality and ability to capture the body gestures, whose its esemble constitutes a universal language. Skin, hands, sweat, everyday gestures either poses studied imposed by the status or revealing of the relevance to a particular tribe is very eloquently about human being and his place in society.

Young beatniks following the trail of Kerouac, members of the upper New Yorker middle class, grouchy or jokers proletarians, anonymous boxers, top models, sax geniuses, Portuguese fishermen and harvesters, Hollywood stars all human. The beauty of being often lies in the eye of the beholder. And if that glance is condescending, certainly in the case of beautiful people. Larry Fink is unmatched when it comes to light with this identity as they are and they choose to be. Body and soul.

Dates.- From April 11th to September 15th 2013.
Venue.- Museum of Contemporary Art Gas Natural Fenosa. Arteixo Avenue, 171 - 15007 La Coruna.
Curator.- Alain D'Hooghe.

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LARRY FINK

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.

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 was at Lafayette College, 2009.

“Fink’s photographs provide the opportunity to study a gesture, a smile, a surreptitious glance, even the sweat on an arm or a wrinkle of skin – comprising a kind of desire, sensuality, disappointment, or ennui. They record the tension between one’s keenly felt public identity and the inner exigencies of the emotional psyche.”

— Susan Kismaric, Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art

Published on: April 6, 2013

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