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Larry Clark

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About Me


LARRY CLARK
Official Profile
of the artist considered one of the most important photographers
and film directors of the 21st century
Larry Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1943. After graduation from Central High in Tulsa, Clark attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for two years. He was drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam in 1966.
Clark's groundbreaking first feature film, KIDS was released in 1995. Based on a story by Clark and Jim Lewis with a script by Harmony Korine, one of the several teenage skateboarders Clark befriended in New York City's Washington Square Park and later cast in his film. KIDS was controversial even before it's release, prompting the then Disney owned Miramax to remove its name from the film and release it privately. The film screened in competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was a cause celebre at the Sundance Film Festival.
Following the success of KIDS Clark directed three more features, Another Day In Paradise (1997), Bully (2001) and Ken Park (2002), before discovering the Latino skate punk kids of South Central Los Angeles who would comprise the cast of his most recent feature, Wassup Rockers (2006).
Best known for his haunting depiction of teenage life on the edge in his photography volumes Tulsa (1971), and Teenage Lust (1983), Larry Clark remains a significant figure in contemporary art. His work is included in the photography collections of nearly every major museum, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum Of Comtemporary Arts in Los Angeles, and the Frankfurt Museum fur Moderne Kunst.

My Interests


Photography
Indie Films

I'd like to meet:

Women, punks, rebels, rockers, skaters, troublemakers

Music:



Movies:




Books:


Tulsa
Teenage Lust
The Perfect Childhood
1992
Kids
punk Picasso
Los Angeles 2003-2006

My Blog

CinéMOCA

An after-hours summer celebration featuring outdoor screenings, music, and gallery tours of Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE and Allan KaprowArt as Life. Screenings include films by Target ...
Posted by Larry Clark on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:05:00 PST

The eternal adolescent

Larry Clark started his career in 1972. His first monograph of documentary photographs Tulsa, published that year, was released to a huge amount of controversy. The book documented Clark and his frien...
Posted by Larry Clark on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:15:00 PST

The kids stay in the picture

Larry Clark is 65 years old. He looks his age except for the clothes he is wearing: baggy pants and a hip-hop T-shirt. He must surely be the oldest skateboarder on the planet. The morning I meet him a...
Posted by Larry Clark on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:05:00 PST

Moving Pictures: Destricted


Posted by Larry Clark on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:56:00 PST

Educating Larry Clark

The filmmaker learnt a lot from his new short, writes Philippa Hawker.The Destricted project was, in many ways, an invitation to go too far - to test boundaries and to step outside them. It's a featur...
Posted by Larry Clark on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:47:00 PST

In the Eye of the Storm

Interview by Raphaël Cuir | art press 333 (August 2007)A year ago, seven short films by Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla, Sam Taylor-Wood and Larry Clark w...
Posted by Larry Clark on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:45:00 PST

New Exhibition

Larry Clark : Los Angeles 2003-2006September 8th - October 13th, 2007Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition of new photographs by the renowned American photographer and fi...
Posted by Larry Clark on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST

Time Out New York w/ Larry Clark

Ever since his horny AIDS parable, Kids, debuted at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival to both horrified gasps and applause, photographer Larry Clark has made his name as a fringe auteur of adolescent sexu...
Posted by Larry Clark on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:49:00 PST

indieWIRE INTERVIEW

Veteran director Larry Clark (Ken Park, Kids) returns to screens with his latest installment of teenage drama in Wassup Rockers. In the film, a group of South Central skater boys take a ride up to L.A...
Posted by Larry Clark on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:41:00 PST

Larry Clark's New Kids

"It was like herding cats."It's been a little over a decade since Larry Clark unleashed his debut feature, the provocative teen drama, Kids (1995). Since then, the 62-year-old Clark has continued to e...
Posted by Larry Clark on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:09:00 PST