Mr. Larry Clark

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  Oh, that Larry Clark.He's at it again.His "new" exhibit is a revisiting of "Teenage Lust."Larry apparently didn't show, but the question on everyone's mind is...
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  Gawker's dirty little sister threw out these two links (Pavement Magazine and harmony-korine.com) giving insight to and history of Clark, as well as this one which gives you the chance to buy your very own Larry Clark picture, naughty bits and all.Or you can read what the New York Times had to say on March 25th.
  
  Mr. Clark, who was born in 1943 in Tulsa, Okla., is a compulsively provocative artist, and his first retrospective exhibition, at the International Center of Photography, will give your moral sensitivities a workout.He is not happy unless he is working the outer limits of moral acceptability.His supporters say he bears witness to social truths.In the books that put him on the map of fine art photography, "Tulsa" (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983), he reported from the front lines of self-destructive youth culture in vividly immediate scenes of drinking, driving, drug-taking and promiscuous sex.
  
  It is not only the subject matter that is unsettling; it is also the nature of the photographer's involvement.Mr. Clark has never been the classic Life magazine-style photojournalist who drops in on different sorts of newsworthy situations -- the plight of Asian child prostitutes, say -- and reports from a concerned distance.And despite resemblances, he has not been a Robert Frank kind of fine art photographer, with an eye for the powerful visual metaphor.The main impulse in Mr. Clark's photography has been autobiographical, and to the extent that his life has been driven by socially problematic energies, so has his photography.So, listen to the song, read the post, look at the pictures.Do it in that order.

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  Larry Clark at International Center of Photography

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  50 Years of Larry Clark on Display
  
  Be my valentine
  
  Like any tradition and superstition there are different sides of the story. One of the stories tells that St. Valentine was a Roman who broke the law and married people in secret.Another story tells that he was a priest that also cared for the sick.But in this story he was executed merely for his beliefs.And on the day he was to be executed (February 14) he had a visitor and gave her a note to reassure her that said "from your Valentine" -- this seems to be the origin of the tradition.

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  50 Years of Larry Clark on Display
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  50 Years of Larry Clark on Display
  
  The works of Larry Clark both photographic and film will be displayed at the International Center of Photography.Clark displays the challenges of sex, violence, and their influences on teens in America.Works on display will cover over a 50 year period including works from his famous book Tulsa (1971) and recent work about skatboarders in New York City during the 1990's.Clarks work will be on display March 11 - June 5, 2005.
  
  The International Center of Photography (ICP) will present the first American retrospective of the work of Larry Clark, one of the most important and influential American photographers of the second half of the 20th century, from March 11 through June 5, 2005.The exhibition, Larry Clark, will include the full spectrum of Clark's work, spanning five decades and as many media.
  
  Beginning with his landmark book Tulsa (1971), Clark has produced an extraordinary range of photographs and films.Clark's work representsâ€"probably better than any other photographer'sâ€"the important historical transition from the documentary-style photojournalism of the 1950s to the more personal and investigative photographic explorations of the 1970s and 1980s.
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  Clark is known for his frank engagement with challenging subject matter.These subjects are an integral part of his explorations of various themes in American culture: the exploitation of teenagers in American mass media (teen idols as pinups and sex objects); the confusions created for teen viewers by images of intense violence and sexuality; the responsibility borne by adults, especially parents, for the problems faced by young people; and the double-edged and largely unexplored aspects of the construction of masculinity in American culture.
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  "Larry Clark has had a tremendous influence on the style and subject matter of at least two generations of photographers and filmmakers, and this retrospective provides the first opportunity for an American audience to examine the full scope of his work."
  
  Larry Clark will bring together for the first time key works from Clark's career, illuminating the thematic and autobiographical threads that run through the artist's work.Filling almost the entire exhibition space at ICP, Larry Clark will present a comprehensive overview of the artist's work in photography, collage, video, bookmaking, and film.The original set of Tulsa photographs used to print the book will be exhibited, as will outtakes from Tulsa that have rarely been seen.All other major bodies of his photographic output will be presented, including the complete Teenage Lust, color portraits of skater kids in New York City from the mid-1990s, and a 1996 return to Tulsa to document the now largely Southeast Asian and Latino subcultures of his hometown.
  
  About the artistLarry Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1943.His mother was a portrait photographer in Tulsa, and Clark worked in the family business, going door-to-door selling his mother's work.After high school, he studied photography at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1961-63), and then returned to Tulsa to photograph his circle of friends as they unselfcon-sciously lived their lives of drug use, violence, and sex before his camera.In 1971, these photographs were published in Tulsa, a book that became a controversial classic for its unsparing yet non-judgmental portrait of his friends.In an interview with ARTForum in 1995, Clark said, "The one thing I wanted to do in Tulsa was cut through the bull…and tell the truth."Clark's next book, Teenage Lust (1983), is a loosely constructed autobiography told through family photographs, news clippings, and Clark's own photographs.He explores the theme of emerging masculinity in 1992 (1992) and A Perfect Childhood (1995), both of which focus on teenage boys, a population Clark felt was both "sexualized and demonized." His collages and videos of the late 1980s and early 1990s broaden this investigation into revealing the ways that mass media alternately creates, rejects, and eroticizes young people.In 1995, Clark released his first feature film, Kids, which premiered at that year's Sundance Film Festival and was hailed as "an instant classic" and "a wake-up call."
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  Larry Clark: International Center of Photography, New York

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  Published on: 5/12/2005    Last Visited: 5/13/2005  

  LARRY CLARK International Center of Photography 1133 Ave. of the Americas at 43rd St.Tue.-Thu., Sat., Sun.10 a.m.-6 p.m.
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  The International Center of Photography is exhibiting a comprehensive retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark, seen above in "Self Portrait, 1962," known for his groundbreaking, documentarian approach to adolescent life.The skateboarder, "Untitled, 1992-95," is part of a series on street kids and urban adventurers.
  
  Perpetual Crisis Called Adolescence
  
  Since his youth, Larry Clark has trained unflinching lens on good kids doing bad stuff
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  Thirty years later, in November 2001, Clark gave the following missive to an interviewer for L.A. Weekly: "You think drugs didn't ruin me.
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  Such hedonistic indulgences are still as readily available or more so today than when Clark began his hobby of taking pictures as a teenager in the '60s.His subjects still straddle the razor's edge of pop culture's accepted rules and conventions.
  
  "Tulsa" propelled Clark into the art world because the photographs in that first book of his were never intended to be seen.The subjects are his friends and himself during the years 1963 through 1971 in which we are privy to rites of passage captured in all their innocence and trust by a buddy who always had a camera.There was no staging or posing,they shoot up, they fuck each other, they play with guns.The presentation of these images,black and white caught in low lighting,gives the world an intimate "first look" at raw, youthful defiance that was not otherwise visible in 1971 pop culture.
  
  The ICP exhibition includes this and works from Clark's subsequent books "Teenage Lust" (which was recently on view at ClampArt in Chelsea) and "1992" and color portraits from the untitled "Skaters" series, which was developed in Clark's 1995 breakout feature-film "Kids."
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  It is with a documentarian's eye, however, that Clark tells his stories.
  
  Ten years ago, when I interviewed him upon the release of "Kids," Clark told me: "What pisses people off is that I don't wrap [my work] up in a pretty little package with a pretty little bow on top like they do in Hollywood movies because it ain't reality, that ain't life.
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  In conjunction with Larry Clark at ICP, Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street) will be showing three of Clark's films May 13 - 16.Call 212-591-0434 for show times.

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  Larry Clark
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  This exhibition will provide a long-awaited survey of the work of the legendary photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark. Famous for his classic photo book Tulsa (1971), Clark revolutionized the uses and meaning of documentary photography.In later books and photographs, Clark continued to examine the ways young people navigate the social passage to adulthood

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  "Larry Clark: A Retrospective" exhibition
  
  Lower East Side Print Shop: $30,000New York, NY

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  Larry ClarkInternational Center of Photography >>
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  This elaborate retrospective of photographer-filmmaker Larry Clark includes the images from his books, his photo-collages, collateral videos, and one of his films.Born in 1943, Clark burst on the photographic scene in 1971 with his stark landmark documentary of the youthful drug culture of his native city, called simply Tulsa.
  
  Here Clark takes a painfully honest look at the culture that he himself was immersed in as a young man, seeking both identity and escape; a culture of collective self-destruction.The documentary style is reminiscent of work published in Life magazine, except that Clark's lens could only be in the hands of a participant.The images leave the viewer almost embarrassed at the desperate vulnerability we are permitted to see; scenes of young men shooting up, variously framed by car windows, mirrors, shadows, broken glass and a large picture of Jesus hanging over the mantelpiece; a vignette of a hand dripping a trail of blood down the inner forearm; hands clasped behind a bowed neck; a heavy young woman with a black eye lying in bed; a young man in bed shooting up a bare-breasted woman; a pregnant woman shooting up in the sunlight; a man lying in bed takes a drag from his cigarette as he looks off to the right, while a chubby-faced baby lying cross-wise on the man's stomach stares imploringly up at the camera; flowers laid by a dead baby's coffin…
  
  In 1983 Clark brought out his next book, Teenage Lust: An Autobiography of Larry Clark.Here Clark extends the saga, beginning with family photographs, then documenting his move to New York City, then cross-cuts between his series of arrests and his quest for the utopia of a communal hippie life in New Mexico, concluding with a series of portraits of young male hustlers around a pre-Disney Times Square.Throughout his youthful sex scenes on couches and in bathtubs, as we pass by image after image of bare breasts and distended penises, there is little erotic allure.The subjects are just as lost as in the first book, though the emphasis has shifted from drugs to sex.
  
  Between 1989 and 1992 Clark created a number of wall-sized collages, first as informal bulletin boards collecting newspaper clippings, magazine pages, postcards, photographs and various ephemera, and later formalized as framed works.They focus on the same themes as his personal work, but with more informed context.The exhibition also features several videotapes of daytime TV interview programs selected by Clark, such as an episode of the Phil Donahue Show, in which teen violence is discussed (e.g. a16-year old boy who murdered his violent father).
  
  For his third work, 1992 (1992), Clark hired five teenage boys to create fictional scenes that continued to explore themes of sex and violence inspired from his youth.He strips away the narrative framework, however, and substitutes image after image of nearly identical gesture and scene, as of successive stills from a movie.This book clearly presaged a transition into film.Clark's first feature film, Kids, released in 1995, is shown continuously in one of the side rooms of a downstairs gallery.This extreme-reality docu-drama depicts a day in the life of an HIV-positive sexual predator and his skate-boarding chums, who eventually gang up on him and beat him up.Since then Clark has made Another Day in Paradise (1998), a film about an older couple who hook up with a teenage couple to facilitate their drug robberies; and Bully (2001), based on the story of a teenage boy's murder by his drug-addled peers.
  
  Clark's allegiance has always been to his subjects rather than to the sensibilities of his viewers.As a result, his work doesn't pull any punches; as this show confirms in excruciating detail.

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  Oh, that Larry Clark.He's at it again.His "new" exhibit is a revisiting of "Teenage Lust."Larry apparently didn't show, but the question on everyone's mind is…
  ...
  Gawker's dirty little sister threw out these two links (Pavement Magazine and harmony-korine.com) giving insight to and history of Clark, as well as this one which gives you the chance to buy your very own Larry Clark picture, naughty bits and all.Or you can read what the New York Times had to say on March 25th.
  
  Mr. Clark, who was born in 1943 in Tulsa, Okla., is a compulsively provocative artist, and his first retrospective exhibition, at the International Center of Photography, will give your moral sensitivities a workout.He is not happy unless he is working the outer limits of moral acceptability.His supporters say he bears witness to social truths.In the books that put him on the map of fine art photography, ''Tulsa'' (1971) and ''Teenage Lust'' (1983), he reported from the front lines of self-destructive youth culture in vividly immediate scenes of drinking, driving, drug-taking and promiscuous sex.
  
  It is not only the subject matter that is unsettling; it is also the nature of the photographer's involvement.Mr. Clark has never been the classic Life magazine-style photojournalist who drops in on different sorts of newsworthy situations - the plight of Asian child prostitutes, say - and reports from a concerned distance.And despite resemblances, he has not been a Robert Frank kind of fine art photographer, with an eye for the powerful visual metaphor.The main impulse in Mr. Clark's photography has been autobiographical, and to the extent that his life has been driven by socially problematic energies, so has his photography.

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