Deer Slaying, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania 1978

Larry Fink took this gelatin silver print, *Deer Slaying, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania*. It’s a photograph in grayscale, and I'm thinking about the choices you make when you go without color. Here, the tonal range becomes really crucial. I think about the flat blackness of the interior of the truck bed, which contrasts the velvety fur of the deer, whose life has been cut short. The texture feels so important. I think about the surface of the paper, the way it absorbs the light, and the way that the light is sort of trapped in the fibers of the paper. It's got this real physicality. I keep thinking about how the leg of the deer is folded in on itself, a little bit like a drawing. Thinking about how this work relates to that of someone like Diane Arbus, who was interested in the social landscape in the US. There's a conversation there about how to represent something that feels loaded and charged.