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Series Title: Social Graces

John Sabatine and Molly at Pat Sabatine’s Eleventh Birthday Party, April 1980

1980

Larry Fink

(American, 1941–2023)
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Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 24.8 x 24.4 cm (9 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.6 cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz in honor of Barbara Tannenbaum 2012.463.49
Copyright
© Larry Fink
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Light from a handheld flash highlights the figures here and sets them into relief.

Description

After Larry Fink became friends with his neighbors in rural Pennsylvania, the Sabatine family, he was invited to all their family celebrations, and always came with his camera in hand. John, the patriarch of the family, is seen here. Shooting in their crowded kitchen during a birthday party, Fink had to get very close to his subjects and needed a handheld flash to supplement the room’s lighting.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts an older man with light skin tone pictured from the waist up, holding a child. The man wears a dark baseball cap and a shirt with a pen in the pocket, smiling at the child. The child wears a pointed party hat and dark overalls, looking toward our right. Bright light highlights their faces and forms against a shadowed kitchen background with a refrigerator and cabinets.

John Sabatine and Molly at Pat Sabatine’s Eleventh Birthday Party, April 1980

1980

Larry Fink

(American, 1941–2023)
America

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