Photographs by Larry Fink from the Portfolio “Making Out 1957-1980” features a suite of 15 black and white limited edition photographs. The striking, high-contrast images explore the complexities of interpersonal relationships and human bonds.

Set in locations ranging from rural Pennsylvania to New York City, the work captures commonplace events—birthday parties, first communions, debutante balls—and presents the quintessential American experience. Fink’s photographs depict scenes in which ordinary people seek to connect with one another. As he writes in his introduction, “Most of the people photographed are touching each other…they look to find completion, to come home.”

Artist’s Statement:

“I tried to put together pictures which dealt directly with many aspects of emotional yearning, illusions that probe the most intimate sense of emphatic physical revelation. Most of the people photographed are touching each other, if not directly, then touched by each other in the way they relate within psychic space, and if simply alone they look outward to find inner center, to touch themselves, to find completion, to come home. This portfolio is to be understood as a swinging pendulum in a compendium of states of the heart. I felt it appropriate that my first portfolio offering should bridge the gap of the years that I have been photographing—to give continuity to my concerns and pass them along to you.”   — LARRY FINK