More Press Coverage !!
The New York Times, "Bookshelf," Photo Feature
Vanity Fair, "Coffee Table Talk"

"...empathy comes through in the Social Graces he finds and juxtaposes, even when the photos are less than flattering.... a number of the 92 duotone photos are truly riveting and Fink's observations of class dynamics 20 and 30 years ago still feel relevant today." —Publishers Weekly

"'Social Graces,' a famous series of photographs that Larry Fink produced in the 1970s, does one of the things straight photography does best: provide excruciatingly intimate glimpses of real people and their all-too-fallibly-human lives.... Taken one at a time, Mr. Fink's black-and-white pictures are wonderfully absorbing, funny, skewed, ethereally glowing documents of human situations.... every picture here is like a good short story—here John Cheever, there Raymond Carver." —"Art in Review," The New York Times

"This handsome reissue of fink's classic is more than a reprint. Though it preserves the original sequence of photographs, the book has been completely redesigned, and new separations have been made from the originals. The reproductions do justice to the brilliance and density of Fink's prints. A brand new chapter features never=before published images... Call it a director's cut." —American Photo

"...expanded from its original 1984 edition but with its biting wit and generous humanity intact." —The Village Voice, Vince Aletti's selection for Best Photography Books of 2001

"[Fink's] images are poetic, incisive, unflinching and blunt." —Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine

"What's the difference between a crumpled bag of potato chips and an empty bowl of Beluga caviar at the end of the day?...The iconography of class—both the Cartier kind and the McDonald's kind—touches on the universal themese of desire, temptastion, and excess." —Dutch

"What is surprising, almost twenty-five years later, is not how jarring the juxtaposition of images is, but rather how much the two worlds have in common and how little either has changed." —V Magazine

"Fink's brutally honest photos, from New York's upper East Side to broken-down Pennsylvania porches, prove all social gatherings look the same—faces slackened by drink, men and women draped in awkward clutches, a host's exhausted slouch." —Entertainment Weekly

"As fresh as the day it was originally issued, Fink's intimate, candid photographs view both enclaves with little ambivalence, pitting the phoniness and ennui of the one against the inbred, disenfranchised vitality of the other. A thoughtful mediation on what this does to its participants on both ends of the spectrum." —San Jose Mercury News

"...Fink challenged the popular notions of class and dignity with powerful photographs that bucked stereotypes of these different social 'classes.' In the late 70's, this work was quite relevant to the on-going 'self-examination' of America by its greatest photgoraphers, and it remains both engaging and vital today." —Picture

"Urbane New york and rural Pennsylvania clash..." —The Capital Times