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Kissing at The Pier by Leonard Fink The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. One of Fink's most iconic photographs is actually a self-portrait. Fink and his friend Tom publicly kiss, defiantly challenging indecency laws in 1970s America. The shot was taken at the piers on West Street. Piers 40 to 52 were a hotbed of gay ...
Leonard Fink worked for the city’s transit department, he was an avid amateur photographer and chose to spend much of his income on photography supplies. He lived in the West Village and was a well known and vibrant character, often seen wearing roller skates and cut off shorts, always with a camera around his neck.
This homage revisits the life activist and photographer, Leonard Fink, who had a crucial role in documenting gay lives at the time of the liberation.
Fun amidst ruin. After the decline of the shipping industry in New York City, the once thriving piers stood empty in ruin. Neglected and abandoned, the piers found new life as the scene of artistic and sexual inhibition for New York's gay men. Sunbathing on the Pier by Leonard Fink The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
Jan 24, 2018 · OUT FOR THE CAMERA: The Self-Portraits of Leonard Fink is an exhibition focusing on photographs by Leonard Fink (American, 1930-1992) a gay photographer, whose work was almost entirely unknown during his lifetime and is still little known today. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Fink took hundreds of pictures in New York City documenting the bar culture of the West Village and the annual ...
Leonard Fink was an American photographer who documented his own LGBT culture in New York City from 1967 to 1992.[1][2] He photographed the annual Pride Marches beginning with the first in 1970; the West Village's gay bar culture; and in particular the abandoned West Side piers where men cruised and had sexual encounters.
A self-portrait of photographer Leonard Fink, riding his motorcycle.As both an artist and an active member of the community, Fink documented gay life and experiences in the 1970's and '80's until his death due to AIDs in 1993.
