“You know there's somebody there who's truly touched by what he's hearing and seeing,” says Greenfield. “It doesn't matter the topic, the moment or the image, Larry gets to the heart of the matter and the soul. What I told the musicians is that a great soloist is coming into their midst.”

According to Fink, “The Sense of Sound” is a quixotic quest to express “what it's like to be enraptured by music. It's absolutely impossible, but wonderful to try for. You're looking for beauty and dignity and grace and balance. The music is behind you, with this tremendous emotional fuel. You're swimming through these musicians, who are so invested in humanity, in decency, in exuberance. The sum part of the evidence is that they really enjoy themselves more than other orchestras because they really take control. It's amazing to see how hard they work and how fulfilled they are at the end of the day. God, how they have good times!”

“Fink, whose photographs typically involve the keen observation of small-scale social interactions, goes large with a series shot for Vanity Fair during the final months of the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama primary campaigns. His results include a number of very good images of the candidates in action and even more interesting behind-the-scenes views of the people drawn into their orbit, including staffers, Secret Service personnel, and fellow-citizens. Still, star power is hard to resist, and, in the best picture here, Obama gestures gracefully but forcefully at the edge of a roiling crowd, his poise thrown into relief by the frenzy. Through Aug. 15. (Pace/MacGill, 32 E. 57th St. 212-759-7999.)”

“In the United States, there are probably more people like West Virginian Bill Moats than there are Paris Hiltons, but we never get to see the Bill Moatses of America. That is, unless someone like photographer Larry Fink gets in our faces about Bill Moats, a carpenter, craftsperson and all-around handyman, but definitely not a member of the glitterati.”

“I try to make the most honest picture I know how to make,” he says. “The pictures are really just about the people I met in my travels, my own honest appraisal of them.”