When you Google the name 'Larry Fink', the first result is not the cult photographer whose stark, dramatically lit black-and-white photos – of everyone from well-heeled stockbrokers to fighters in grimy boxing gyms – struck like a flashbulb at the very heart of America.
Instead, the search engine will present you with the billionaire CEO of the multinational investment company BlackRock. This is something that would surely have tickled the other Fink, a self-professed Marxist who died last year at age of 82, having spent decades shunning the spotlight even as his work thrillingly exposed his country’s shadowy power dynamics.
