Larry ClarkFollow This Artist
Born: 1943
Hometown: Tulsa, OK
Lives and Works: New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.larryclarkofficialwebsite.com
Education:
Layton School or Art, Milwaukee, WI, 1961
Larry Clark Bio
About The Artist
Larry Clark made his name with the landmark book of documentary photographs Tulsa in 1973. His grainy black-and-white images of youths in his hometown shooting drugs, engaging in sex, and inflicting violence on one another spoke a truth rarely acknowledged at the time. Clark's work since then has traced the lurid and deviant lives of teenagers with disturbing and controversial results. In 1995, Clark released the shocking film Kids, intent on showing the media's effect on youth culture while reveling in the pure, immersive, and unfettered experience of young people. Clark's work has influenced later photographers like Terry Richardson and Ryan McGinley, and independent filmmaker Gus Van Sant.
In 1973, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Clark with a Photographers' Fellowship, and in 2005 he received an International Photography Lucie Award. A major retrospective of his work was held in 2010 at Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in France.
Larry Clark Gallery Art
Galleries
Simon Lee Gallery, London, England
Larry Clark Permanent Collections
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The Zabludowicz Art Collection, London, UK
Thomas Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Larry Clark Art
Works by the Artist
