Benefit, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1975

This black and white photograph by Larry Fink captures a moment at a benefit, maybe at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, who knows? I'm looking at this image and thinking about what it means to capture a moment in time. The way Fink uses light and shadow, it’s like he’s painting with the camera. You know, photography can be kind of like painting, or maybe painting is like photography—it’s all about seeing. I wonder what Fink was thinking, what kind of mood he wanted to create. The subjects are locked in conversation, and the glasses of wine and pieces of cake create a sense of intimacy, or is it awkwardness? It's funny how something caught in a frame can tell so many different stories. I almost feel like I’m intruding on their privacy somehow. It’s like glimpsing a scene from a movie. Artists inspire each other across time, and it's all a part of an ongoing creative conversation. Paintings, photographs - they embrace ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations, and that’s how we keep art alive.