Conrad Nelson Lecture: Larry Fink

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Millersville University welcomes the award-winning photographer Larry Fink on October 22 for a public lecture. Fink's best-known work is Social Graces, a series of photographs that explores the nature of both high and low-class culture as embodied in the behaviors of upper crust Manhattan aristocracy juxtaposed with rural, blue-collar Pennsylvanian folk. With equal parts humor and polite ambivalence, Fink presents a rare glimpse inside both worlds.

Larry Fink is a professional photographer of 45 years. He has had one man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Musee de la Lausanne Photographie in Belgium, and the Musee de l’Elysee in Switzerland, amongst others. He shows in galleries regularly in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, France. Along with two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976 and 1979, and two National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, 2002.   His commercial work includes advertising campaigns for Smirnoff, Bacardi, and Cunard Lines (Q.E.2). His work has appeared in top publications such as Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Detour, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He has been teaching for the past 41 years, the last 16 years as a professor of photography at Bard College.

This event is sponsored by the Conrad Nelson Artist-In-Residence Fellowship. The Conrad Nelson Artist-In-Residence Fellowship was established in 2000 by MU alum Conrad Nelson, to enable the University to bring to campus accomplished visual artists working in various media, to display and describe their works, to give public lectures on issues in the arts, and to interact with students, faculty and other members of the greater Millersville community.

Price: free