Untitled 1978

Larry Fink made this photograph, printed on fibre-based paper, without a title. Just a straightforward, unadorned moment caught in silver gelatin. I like to think about how photography steals instants from time. Look at the woman, framed by the dark wood, and then the shadow of a man lurks behind the glass! What kind of story is this? What's going on here? There’s a whole world condensed into this small frame. Fink must have been thinking about how light and shadow can reveal, and conceal, emotion. Like a painter, Fink coaxes feeling from his medium—not with a brush, but with light and dark. And I wonder if he realized that in capturing this ordinary moment, he would create something so full of mystery. It's not about answers, it's about questions, right?