Check out AG Magazine issue number 58 for an article by Bill Lowenburg about Larry’s book Night at the Met.

Carolina Herrera requests the pleasure of your company to come. be art. and fete photographer Larry Fink as he unveils his book Night at the Met.

Thursday, September 10, 2009  6–11 pm  
954 Madison Avenue

Honor Mr. Fink’s method or create your own vignettes in the photo booth which will be set up for the evening.

Night at the Met is a limited-edition book of photographs documenting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle Benefit in 2007. The subjects of the book are the guests who attended the party and by so doing became the focus of an interactive exhibition; images of the revelers were captured by Larry Fink and projected onto the walls of the museum throughout the night.

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The purpose of this course is to learn to trust yourself so that you are able to make pictures through emotional and physical responses to your subject. This should be the rule and not the afterthought. Being passionately alive within the moment is essential for any photographer. The root of the intuitive is the emotional heart. Kindness is its helper. And believe it or not in this cynical day, love is its liberty.

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As photographers, we live in boxes. We perceive poetic and practical life in a box. We fit the world into the box in our hands, into the box at the end of the viewfinder. What do we leave in? What do we leave out? Can we make silence or sound fill the box? Can we make heartbreak fill the square? If a face strolls through our boxes, how do we capture it without smothering it? How do we live as photographers inside this box and yet live outside it as well? Our intuition knows the answers. Aligning your shooting and seeing with your intuition is to drop many preconceptions about what you think pictures are about and why they are made. When we look into our boxes, whose eyes are we really using? Are we seeing for ourselves or are we following the vision of photographers we admire?

The purpose of this course is to learn to trust yourself so that you are able to make pictures through emotional and physical responses to your subject. This should be the rule and not the afterthought. Being passionately alive within the moment is essential for any photographer. The root of the intuitive is the emotional heart. Kindness is its helper. And believe it or not in this cynical day, love is its liberty.

A student of mine once told me that “I make it feel like each good image is a moral victory." Indeed it is. Anytime there is a discovery which involves the courage of the imagination, it adds to the perpetual revolution of the spirit. And in so far as that is, I am on the front lines of that vanguard. I invite you to join me in Charlottesville for a week of challenging discovery. Everything is open and nothing is relaxed. You will choose your subject matter. We will begin with a detailed portfolio review of each student’s work where I will attempt to find the path within each of your mysteries and try to help create an atmosphere of clarity. Then we will explore and we will shoot. The box will come alive. We are here to surprise each other and move forward. We will spend our hard-earned images on each other and wonder if we have the liberty to rejoice that we have oh-so-subtly learned more about what we see and how we see and what it looks like to feel.

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