Feroz Gallery in Bonn, Germany, presents Larry Fink‘s The Beats until March 27th 2015. In 1958, at the age of eighteen, the photographer Larry Fink left his childhood home on Long Island and moved to a one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. Fink was immediately drawn to New York’s counterculture, and he soon met a group of artists, writers, and musicians affiliated with a late stage of the Beat Movement.
“It was my fate to be aligned with the Beats because of my propensity for drugs, anger, and poetry”, writes Larry Fink in his new book “The Beats,” a collection of previously unpublished photographs from 1958-1959. “Since they were second generation, without the same sense of immortal obsession such as the likes of Kerouac and Ginsberg, they had a distinct need to be documented.” He has written that the group “desperately needed a photographer to be with them, to give them gravity, to live within them, record and encode their wary but benighted existence.” Fink readily assumed the role. Not long after he arrived in New York, he travelled with the group on a cross-country trip to Houston and Mexico.
EXHIBITION
The Beats
Photographs by Larry Fink
Until March 27th, 2015
Feroz Gallery
Prinz-Albert-Straße 12
53113 Bonn
Germany
