Pat Sabatine's Eleventh Birthday, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania 1980

Larry Fink took this black and white photograph, Pat Sabatine's Eleventh Birthday, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. It's a party, and everyone's gathered in a small room; you can see they are all closely packed together. It feels like you're right there with them, doesn't it? I imagine Fink, moving around, watching, trying to get a shot that captures something real. Look at the older woman's t-shirt with the Taurus bull symbol on it. I wonder if that means something about her personality, or is it just a cool shirt? How did she feel having her picture taken? And what's on the table? It seems like a collection of everyday objects, but Fink's eye makes it art. There's a realness to the scene, a raw honesty. I appreciate how he doesn't try to pretty things up. That's what I love about art: the way one person’s vision can make us see the world a little differently.