“Larry began ‘Swimmers’ with a very literal fear of deep water and of drowning,” the art historian Philip Gefter writes in the book.
Gradually the photographer pushed himself from the shallow end into the deep end, toward images he described as “excessively physical, sensual and painterly” even as their abstractness made him feel, in Gefter’s words, “self-conscious and exposed” — presumably like the swimmers themselves.
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Larry, Philip Gefter