Larry Clark

Larry Clark (Tulsa, Oklahoma; January 19, 1943) is an American photographer and film director. He began working with black and white photographs. After leaving school, he spent two years in Vietnam.

After publishing a few photography books, including Tulsa and Teenage Lust, she met a young writer named Harmony Korine in New York. Together they worked on the script for the film Kids, their controversial debut feature.

The themes most covered in his films are youth violence, skateboarding, drugs and casual sex. In various interviews, Clark has stated that these topics were experienced by him himself in his youth. His films are made directly, with raw and simple photography, with a realistic tone. Prominent directors such as Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese have admired Clark's work, especially in his early years in the world of photography.

Biography

Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He learned photography at an early age. His mother was a photographer and at 13 she had to help in the family business. Her father worked for the Reader Services Office, selling books and magazines door to door, and was rarely home.

In 1964, he moved to New York City to work on his own, but was later drafted into the US Army to serve two months in the Vietnam War. His experiences there led him to publish the book Tulsa in 1971, a photographic documentary illustrating drug use in black and white.

Later, in 1983, he published Teenage Lust, an "autobiography" of her adolescent past through the images of others. It included photos of her family, more teen drug use, graphic images of sexual activity and young hustlers in Times Square, New York. Clark constructed a photo essay titled The Perfect Childhood that examined the effect of media on youth culture. Her photographs are part of public collections at several art museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

His film career began with the direction of the video clip Solitary Man by Chris Isaak. After publishing other photographic collections, Clark met Harmony Korine in New York City and asked Korine to write the script for her first feature film Kids, which was released to controversy and critical reception. mixed in 1995. Despite the content of his work, Clark stated in an interview that he remained sober during his recordings, with the exception of the filming of Marfa Girl, where he used opioids for pain due to knee replacement surgery. double.

Works

Movies

• 1995 - Kidsabout the sexual behavior of adolescents and AIDS.
• 1998 - At the end of the Eden ("Another day in paradise"), a crime story, with James Woods and Melanie Griffith.
• 2001 - Bully, planning a teenage murder, based on real facts.
• 2002 - Return to the caves ("Teen caveageman").
• 2002 - Ken Parkstories from a group of teenagers.
• 2006 - Wassup Rockersabout a group of young Salvadoran skaters in the USA. U.S.
• 2006 - Destricted
• 2012 - Marfa Girl, story of two young people in Marfa, Texas. With Adam Mediano and Mercedes Maxwell
• 2014 - The Smell Of Us, about a group of French skaters killing time skating and consuming what is put before them.
• 2018 - Marfa Girl 2About a family trying to recover after a tragedy in Marfa, Texas.

Books

• 1971 - Tulsa.
• 1983 - Teenage Lust.
• 1993 - The Perfect Childhood.
• 1999 - Larry Clark..
• 2013 - Uygur Manichaean Texts: Texts, Translations, Commentary.