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Updated: March 2002 RUNWAY Winner of Best Photo Book, Photo District News, 2000 He enhances the elegant flawlessness of models and the glamour of their entourages with an intensity that transforms off-the-cuff moments
into masterpieces of a kind. The New Yorker In his pictures, supermodels and socialites appear bored, fragile, and full of stage fright or as exhausted as furniture movers." The New York Times "...fashion, as Fink sees it, lies not in any imaginative cuts of fabric but in the system of social relations that supports a business parasitically dependent on youth and illusion." "Coffee Table" by Andy Grundberg, Bookforum "Fink, a wry, left-wing ex-beatnik, id possibly the world's least likely fashion commentatorwhich is precisely why his photographs...are so fabulous." Cover story and 4 page feature, The Independent Magazine (London) Rest assured, both style and substance are alive and well in this damningand damn amusingbook. Graphis "Runway focuses on the more surreal, almost eerie backstage settings of Milan, Paris, and New York's fashion scene. Fink captures the entire 'world' of fashion shows from designers, assistants, models, buyers, presseven hordes of photgoraphers covering the shows. Runway comes off as more of a social documentary than a photgoraphic reportage. The photographs are disturbingly beautiful, capturing a momentalbeit a seemingly incompletel momentin time." Flaunt "In Runway, the celebrated photographer has captured the stranger-than-fiction world of fashion perfectly, removing a little of the mystique that surrounds the industrys key players. Fashion News Harpers& Queen Working with the fluidity of a photojournalist and the assurance of an artist, he nails a models glazed self-absorption, a designers manic concentration, and the many moods of a VIP posse in an instinctively composed flash. Radar, Out "Feed your fascination for fashion with Larry Fink's Runway. Fiunk snaps style in the making with pictorials capturing chic moments from backstage at the runways of Milan, Paris, and New York, This uncensored take gives readers a bird's-eye glimpse of the fittings, functions, and frivolity of a culture that has us all mesmerized." American Salon Everyone should buy 10 copies. Shelflife, Detour "You may not like the people on the runway, but the pictures are terrific. The Detroit News "Fashionistas take note: no drama queens allowed when Fink is about." High Life |
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