Leonard Fink
Leonard Fink (1930–1992) was an American photographer who documented his own LGBT culture in New York City from 1967 to 1992. 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. He neither published nor exhibited his work in his lifetime, but posthumously exhibitions have been held in the Schwules Museum in Berlin and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City. A book, Leonard Fink: Coming Out, was published on the occasion of the latter exhibition. His work is held in the archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. Early life and education Fink was born in New York City in 1930 and grew up on the West Side of Manhattan. He was raised an Orthodox Jew but as an adult he was non-observant. His father and older brother were physicians. Fink gained an undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University, then served in the army in the early 1950s. Later he gained a law degree from New York Law School. Photography Fink was self-taught in photography, using