Larry Fink (born March 11, 1941) is an American photographer best known for his black-and-white images of people at parties and in other social situations.
Fink was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Bernard Fink, was a lawyer, and mother, Sylvia Caplan Fink, was an anti-nuclear weapon activist and an elder rights activist for the Gray Panthers. His younger sister was noted lawyer Elizabeth Fink (1945–2015).[1] He grew up in a politically conscious household and has described himself as “a Marxist from Long Island.”[2][3] He studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where photographer Lisette Model was one of his teachers and encouraged his work.[2][4][5]