Lucy Sante Writes About Larry Fink for the New York Review of Books

Lucy Sante, writer, critic, and former Bard faculty member, reflects on the life and legacy of the late photographer Larry Fink, who was professor emeritus of Photography at Bard, in a piece for the New York Review of Books. Sante discusses Fink’s impact at Bard, his childhood on Long Island, and his evolution as a photographer, from documenting figures of the civil rights era to his work as a society photographer. “Larry believes in light and its companion, shadow, as much as he believes in the inexhaustible variety of human beings and the forms and degrees of connection among them,” Sante writes. “He has been our spy, our witness, our explorer in the human jungle, and here are the specimens he has brought back, annotated by his emotions.”

Post Date: 02-06-2025