Fink 's best-known work is '' Social Graces '' , a series of photographs he produced in the 1970s that depicted and contrasted wealthy Manhattanites at fashionable clubs and social events alongside working-class people from rural Pennsylvania participating in events such as high school graduations . '' Social Graces '' was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and was published in book form in 1984 . A '' New York Times '' reviewer described the series as exploring social class by comparing " two radically divergent worlds " , while accomplishing " one of the things that straight photography does best : provid ing excruciatingly intimate glimpses of real people and their all-too-fallibly-human lives . " In 2001 , for an assignment from '' The New York Times Magazine '' , Fink created a series of satirical color images of President George W. Bush and his cabinet ( portrayed by stand-ins ) in scenes of decadent revelry modeled on paintings by Weimar-era painters Max Beckmann , Otto Dix and George Grosz . The planned publication of the series was canceled after the September 11 attacks , but was displayed in the summer of 2004 at the PowerHouse Gallery in New York , in a show titled " The Forbidden Pictures : A Political Tableau . " Fink was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1976 and 1979 and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowships in 1978 and 1986 . In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Larry Fink (photographer)