Larry Fink

Beatniks
1958

A black and white photograph of a young man with tousled hair looking intently at the camera. He wears a button-up shirt with a book peeking out from his chest pocket. In the background, there are blurred figures of people and the facade of a multi-story building, suggesting an urban setting.

A black and white photograph of a young man with tousled hair looking intently at the camera. He wears a button-up shirt with a book peeking out from his chest pocket. In the background, there are blurred figures of people and the facade of a multi-story building, suggesting an urban setting.

Not on view

Date
1958

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm) Image: 14 9/16 × 14 9/16in. (37 × 37 cm)

Accession number
96.227.55

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Stephen L. and Linda G. Singer

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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artworks/11462

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Larry Fink
159 works in the collection

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