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).
A terrible calamity on the great ocean
Happened to the ship Titanic at night
It crashed hard into an iceberg
Suddenly the ship began to sink,
The strongest, best ship in the world,
Carrying thousands…
Prisoners, naked and bound, in embossed relief, Assyria, Iron Age II, 9th century BCE. These prisoners, from a city in Syria, were conquered by the army of Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria (reigned…
In 1832, after the French conquest of Algeria, French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) traveled to North Africa, creating a series of paintings and drawings that exoticized scenes of daily life in…