From The Arts News:
The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink, celebrated for his class-conscious black-and-white images of Americans across social strata, has been acquired by the MUUS Collection, a for-profit company dedicated to championing the work of undervalued photographers. The firm will stage an exhibition on Fink curated by the author, critic and artist Lucy Sante at the forthcoming edition of Paris Photo in November, coinciding with the release of a new monograph on the artist’s work.
Fink, who died in November 2023 aged 82, built a legacy producing indelible photographs often suffused by his leftist politics and his deep roots in New York. He gained notoriety beginning in the 1950s for his images depicting the second generation of Beats in Greenwich Village, as well as jazz musicians and activists in the civil rights and antiwar movements.
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About the MUUS Collection:
The MUUS Collection brings together photographic works that mark major turning points in American history, ultimately creating a road map of our shared past. We believe in the unique power of photography as an inimitable touchstone of collective cultural memory, and it is our goal to preserve and promote these invaluable artifacts for generations to come.
As a functional archive, the MUUS Collection builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of American photography, generating new scholarship and understanding, while instigating interesting and relevant dialogues within the wider photography community. The combined art, archival, and research materials that make up the MUUS Collection ultimately serve to deepen our appreciation of how photography impacts society.
The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink, celebrated for his class-conscious black-and-white images of Americans across social strata, has been acquired by the MUUS Collection, a for-profit company dedicated to championing the work of undervalued photographers. The firm will stage an exhibition on Fink curated by the author, critic and artist Lucy Sante at the forthcoming edition of Paris Photo in November, coinciding with the release of a new monograph on the artist’s work.
Fink, who died in November 2023 aged 82, built a legacy producing indelible photographs often suffused by his leftist politics and his deep roots in New York. He gained notoriety beginning in the 1950s for his images depicting the second generation of Beats in Greenwich Village, as well as jazz musicians and activists in the civil rights and antiwar movements.
Full article here:
The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink acquired by the MUUS Collection
The firm, which purchases, studies and promotes the work of under-recognised photographers, will stage a show of Fink's images at Paris Photo in November
About the MUUS Collection:
The MUUS Collection brings together photographic works that mark major turning points in American history, ultimately creating a road map of our shared past. We believe in the unique power of photography as an inimitable touchstone of collective cultural memory, and it is our goal to preserve and promote these invaluable artifacts for generations to come.
As a functional archive, the MUUS Collection builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of American photography, generating new scholarship and understanding, while instigating interesting and relevant dialogues within the wider photography community. The combined art, archival, and research materials that make up the MUUS Collection ultimately serve to deepen our appreciation of how photography impacts society.
MUUS Collection
The primary focus of the MUUS Collection is to collect quintessentially American photography archives from the twentieth century.