With our obsession for the photo book, you might have guessed that it would only be a matter of time before we wrested the process out of the publisher’s hands and into our own. Yes, Fotovision has enlisted Blurb to help us publish a book of new work by the amazing Larry Fink.
The result, Night at the Met, is an interesting look at the ritual of the donor party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. So, we invite you, the photo community, our collectors and lovers of photography to celebrate our mutual passion for the arts and photography with our own ritual party. We’ll have live music, cocktails and this wonderful special edition of 100 books, each with an original black and white chromogenic print by Pictopia. Our celebration includes a lecture and presentation by Larry from 7-8:30.
To encourage you to lively up yourself, we are having a raffle for anyone dressed in cocktail party garb! Prizes include an unsigned copy of Night at the Met and a great photo bag from Think Tank Photo.
You can get your own copy of the edition before the event and immediately following the event. 100 special edition books with a signed black and white chromogenic print will be available that evening for a special low price of $115! You have a choice between one of two prints that are available with this little gem. Check it out and reserve one early at the Fotovision website store.
After the event the special edition of A Night at the Met will be available on our website store with tiered pricing. Hardbound and softbound unsigned books will be available at Blurb.com.
Donations for the book and print are tax-deductible in accordance with the IRS code.
Instructor: Photojournalist and educator Larry Fink began his career with a documentary on beatniks in the late 1950s. Fink has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as well as in major retrospectives at Les Rencontres de Photographie, Arles, France; Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium.
He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA grants, among others. Currently a professor at Bard College, he has taught photography at Yale, Parsons School of Design, and New York University.
His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time-Life Books, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. He is the author of numerous books including Boxing, Runway (powerHouse Books, 1997, and 2000). Social Graces is a stunning achievement contrasting New York’s jet set with the rituals and gatherings of rural Pennsylvania. It was published in 1984 by Aperture and in 2001 by powerHouse Books.