Club Cornich, New York City 1977

Larry Fink captured this image in New York City, using black and white film, so it's got that gritty, documentary feel. You can almost hear the music, the clinking glasses, the murmur of voices. I imagine Fink, moving through the crowd, camera in hand, searching for a story. It's all about that split second, the exact moment when something real shows. The couple, locked in what looks like an intense conversation or maybe a lovers' quarrel. The way the light catches the woman's hair, the dark suit of the man, and the background figures almost melting into the darkness. You could almost see a Cy Twombly scrawl in the background. Photography, like painting, is about the relationship between light and shadow. It’s about capturing a moment, a feeling, and letting it speak. Artists learn from other artists, and photographers borrow the language of painting all the time.