Kindred Spirits

In the work which we called "Kindred Spirits", there is an unusual license which allows the violation of conventional boundaries. This license isn't born of deceit or sin or of a payoff, its born of a family and myself all aligned within the kinship of physical expression and deep respect and love. We all let it hang out, and the pictures are the result of "fleshing it out", in style.

The book resulting from this particular relationship is going to be called "Kindred Spirits" and will be published by Minor Matters, which has a new kind of publishing strategy. The book publication date is dependent on how soon the copies are pre-sold. When the sales get to a certain number than the book is ready to fly. So with this in mind, come all, come in, come by. The family holds you in their arms.

http://minormattersbooks.com/collections/books/products/larry-fink-kindred-spirits

Larry's retrospective publication Attraction and Desire, 50 Years in Photography, is available for purchase from the Sheldon Art Galleries's website. Its not to be missed!

Attraction and Desire, 50 Years in Photography Order Form

The exhibition, Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire- 50 Years in Photography, originally shown at The Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, Missouri is now available as a traveling exhibition.

Larry is working with Aperture to help form clearer, more intuitive, and more imaginative seeing. Come one, come all!
Aperture Workshop with Larry Fink

Hands On, Larry's on-going column with Visura Magazine has a new entry!

An upcoming talk at the Allentown Art Museum

Thanks to Comedy Central with both Casey Patterson and Nick Alexander as the executors of good will and continuity. I photographed the Comedy Awards party.

They treated me well so I came out of party retirement to go to work.

I did so with off camera flash with a Ricoh GXR.       

The results surprised me. I presumed that within a jaded eye for experience over 4 decades that I was over excitement,  but no in fact through the use of new optic and camera  there was new visual experience to be gained and as I prospected for surety I was illuminated by surprises, the images are the logical abstractions of earlier impulses.

Nasty though, to think that I will have to go out into the fray of merry to harvest deeper root for decay and illusion.

Portrait of Larry Fink and assistant Emma Horning by Joseph Michael Lopez

On the 23rd and the 24th of March when Rick Santorum was still in the race, breathing hard with rabid sincerity and rigid morality I was assigned by The New Yorker to go and shoot a right wing convention in Harrisburg, PA. When Emma Horning, my erstwhile assistant and I got there it was raining hard cleaning the street from the dust of a current draught. Ideas within the hotel where the convention was held, gave birth to a passionate if limited view of governance. Rather than wear the badge of The New Yorker which would have seen me and Emma to the door, I adorned myself with “Repeal Obama Care” buttons, Ron Paul stickers and the like, put on a tie (something I haven’t done in years) and waded into the fray of the very enthusiastic and friendly Right Wing birds of a feather, hawkish you could call them, all but some wanting to annihilate Obama with the sweep of history’s wand.

Within the chosen role of political chameleon I had a great time photographing with my very small and terrifically sharp Ricoh GXR and asking questions, it was a wonderful weekend. I thank all of the people in the room and The New Yorker for allowing me access into this living reality called America.