Club Cornich, New York City
Larry Fink
American, 1941–2023
February 1977
A gelatin silver print that tightly frames two women at a New York club—hands, rings, and glasses filling the picture—as Fink probes the staged glamour and private vulnerability of social life.
What hits you first is the tight crop: oversized hands and goblets in the foreground, a woman's upward glance and another's laughing mouth at the edge, all rendered in high-contrast black-and-white that makes skin, glass, and wood grain feel tactile and immediate.
Part of Fink's influential studies of nightlife and social ritual, this image helped shift documentary photography toward intimate, cinematic tableaux that reveal how people perform identity and class in public spaces.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
14 5/16 × 13 5/8" (36.4 × 34.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
287.1990
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