its abuses, voluptuous folds, and unfulfilled lives
Posted: December 3rd, 2023 | Tags: Uncategorized | Comments Off on its abuses, voluptuous folds, and unfulfilled livesone more tidbit from photographer larry fink’s obituary:
Mr. Fink was a Brooklyn-born lefty whose early work, in the late 1950s, chronicled the second-generation Beats who were his cohort in the East Village, where he lived for a time, along with the jazz musicians he adored (he played the harmonica) and the protagonists of the civil rights and antiwar movements.
But in the early 1970s he turned to overt social commentary, infiltrating the society benefits, debutante parties and watering holes of Manhattan’s privileged tribes and their hangers-on. He was fueled, he once wrote, both by curiosity and by his own rage at the privileged class — “its abuses, voluptuous folds, and unfulfilled lives.”
