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Larry Fink

Fink on Warhol

New York Photographs of the 1960s

SIGNED Larry Fink

Damiani. Bologna, Italy. 2017. First edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by Larry Fink on the title page. Dated 2017. Text in English. 128 pages.  55 black and white illustrations.  9¾ x 11¾ inches. Very good. 

The 1960's was an era in the United States alive with protest, the crisis of the Vietnam War and the struggle for civil rights provoked the nation to question the nature of the moral and political world. During this period of foment arose a band of arty nihilists with a mission that had little to do with politics yet everything to do with clever posturing and hobnobbing with the art hungry power elite. Andy Warhol was the leader of the pack, and his den was The Factory. Warhol's cohort included Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar, Edie Sedgewick, Julie Garfield, Sussana Campbell, and Benedetta Barzini, as well as members of the punk group The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison. Warhol diverted attention from the political struggle and directed it toward a sullen narcissism aligned with fashion. Fink happened upon Warhol and his followers through a magazine assignment for the literary journal 'The East Side Review'. Warhol and his acolytes spent three days with Fink, who photographed them in various locations. The pictures were not published, though, and they sat untouched in Fink's archive for five decades. Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s' presents for the first time a full selection of the photographs made over that three day period, along with additional unpublished works from Fink's extensive archive, offering additional insight into the political climate of 1960s New York.

"I spent four days with Andy and the gang at The Factory and in the streets. It was a lark. While Andy was everywhere, he was nowhere to be found on the political lines of protest and concern. He floated around it as if its existence was not any issue he was concerned about." —Larry Fink

Fink on Warhol collects photographs of Andy Warhol and his tribe taken within a time span of just four or five days in the spring of 1966 by Fink, working on assignment for the literary magazine East Side Review. The East Side Review closed before Fink’s photographs ran; they are published here for the first time.

Larry Fink and Andy Warhol could hardly be more different as cultural commentators of the 1960s, and their encounter is a revel in the contrast between the politically engagé Fink and the not-so engagé Warhol....One can envision Warhol and his fashionable friends gliding onto Fink's stage like an eclipse of exotic moths, fluttering, fanning and posing. They were completely incomprehensible to Fink amidst the escalations of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, and the attendant rallies and protests. —Kevin Moore

Very good. Light wear to the boards. Few scuff marks and minor soiling to the back cover. Light edgewear. Little rubbing to the edge of the image on the front board. Internally, tanning to page edges. Photographs pristine. Scarce.

SIGNED Larry Fink.