Candid shots of boxing promoter Don King, the boxers, and comedian Eddie Murphy moving through a crowd suggest the high stakes placed on that fight.Īlso included in the exhibition are photographs of young female boxers in the ring as well as of women in fishnet stockings and high heels climbing down from the steps of rings. In Las Vegas, Fink would document the momentous match between Mike Tyson and Donovan Ruddock, considered the “Fight of the Year” in 1991. Photographs of other spaces like theaters and hotel rooms across Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey illustrate the range of Fink’s travels for this series.
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His photographs include close-up images of chiseled bodies: sinewy legs and arms, and muscled shoulders and backs, but also explore the psychological dimensions of the sport, from the hard work of professional training to the intensity of championship matches, to moments of unexpected tenderness and vulnerability. This famous arena figures prominently in Fink’s series as it was pivotal to how he came to know and relate to the world of boxing.
The exhibition features a bird’s-eye view of the ring at the Blue Horizon, the legendary boxing gym in Philadelphia that closed in 2010. The works selected for display are from the artist’s intensive eighteen-year study. He would continue to document boxers, gyms, and matches around the country through 2004.
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Firing at maximum shutter speed, Fink learned how to move quickly and easily around the boxers, capturing fleeting moments of the agony, glory, shock, and satisfaction involved in amateur and professional bouts. This focused exhibition of about 80 gelatin silver prints celebrates a promised gift of the only complete set of Fink’s boxing photographs, including many that have never been published.įink’s fascination with boxing was borne out of an assignment in 1986 to photograph sportsman Jimmy Jacobs, who was also the manager of the world heavyweight champion at the time. Widely recognized as one of this country’s greatest photographers, Fink captures the subculture of boxing through its champions and challengers, its ambition-fueled gyms and rowdy rings and overheated atmospheres of locker rooms, as well as the many fascinating people-among them coaches, trainers, mothers, fathers, girlfriends, and spectators-who populate this world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an inside look at the tough and unsentimental world of boxing-including Philadelphia’s Blue Horizon gym-through the photographs of Larry Fink.
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