Writer and founding editor of LIFE.com Bill Shapiro dedicated a Friday post on Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking. Every week, Bill covers a different photo book and highlights an artist, and his post on Fink speaks to the photographer’s raw talent and touching spirit.
“It’s Friday so let’s talk about Larry Fink (@larryfinkphoto). I can’t think of a photographer who covered so many wildly different subject areas—from Wall Street to shotgun shacks, from jazz to politics, boxing to fashion, civil rights to celebrity, plant life to New York’s hard-partying one percent—with so much acuity and so much intensity and so much…would I be wrong to call it “love”? … The book makes clear that when you’re riding with Fink, you never feel like an outsider; he puts you in the sweaty swing of the moment. And: Fink’s ability to find that thing—that glowing human ember—in his subjects, irrespective of their social status, is remarkable and consistent. And: The man was a poet. Visually, of course. But also with words: “…we are all related,” he once said, “in some form, in many forms, by our emotions, and by our collisions, and collusions, and allusions, and illusions.”
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