Fink: how the working-class throws parties

Pat Sabatine’s Twelfth Birthday Party, May, 1981

Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party, April 1977

Tying in with Maggie's earlier post of Fink's work with the nightlife of America's VIPs & Hollywood power players, Fink also explored the celebrations of the working class in Pennsylvania. Pat Sabatine’s Twelfth Birthday Party, May, 1981 features neither the celebrating child nor what Fink refers to as the “holy mess” of the Sabatine family kitchen, but simply an anonymous hand and the geometry of a gesture. Such intimacies underscore Fink’s belief that all of his subjects, regardless of social status, share the same underlying of emotions, political ideals, and alliances.





[source: http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/fink_larry.php]