Larry Clark Original Photographs 1995
Larry Clark (New York, USA: 1943), Untitled (Boy with Gun), taken during the filming of ‘Kids’. Larry Clark (New York, USA: 1943), Untitled (Scorpion Ink), Original Photograph, Taken during the filming of ‘Kids’, Purchased in New York, Stamped signature by the artis, on verso, 3 x 4 inches, USD$800.
Larry Clark (New York, USA: 1943), Untitled (Leopard Nude), Original Photograph, 1995, Taken during the filming of ‘Kids’, Purchased in New York, Stamped signature by the artist on verso, 3 x 4 inches, USD$800.
Larry Clark (New York, USA: 1943), Untitled (Scorpion Ink), Original Photograph, Taken during the filming of ‘Kids’, Purchased in New York, Stamped signature by the artis, on verso, 3 x 4 inches, USD$800.
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Larry Clark is one of the most important photographers and artists of the last half-century.
His seminal first book, Tulsa (1971), is still dangerous.
His directorial debut, KIDS (1995), established Mr. Clark’s reputation as one of the most controversial and influential filmmakers of our time.
Other films that followed like BULLY (2001) and KEN PARK (2002) prompted the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) censorship board to react by advising parents to “hide your children”. Larry Clark’s new film, MARFA GIRL (2012), written and directed by Mr. Clark, continues to refine his unique vision and art.
Clark has said:
I don’t try to be controversial, I just try to be honest and tell the truth about life. Coming from the art world, I never think there are things you can’t do or show. I think that Hollywood films are really underestimating their audience. I’ve been an artist for many, many years. I’m not interested in making films to make money. I’m interested in making work that I’m satisfied with, showing people’s lives that aren’t shown. If I could see this anywhere else, I wouldn’t have to make these films.
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Larry Clark holds a seminal position in the history and practice of photography in America. Renowned for his treatment of drug use, subcultures and teenage sexuality, his controversial representations of American youth culture are rooted in the artist’s own biography. Clark was born in Tulsa, OK in 1943. His mother earned her living as a door-to-door baby photographer and from the age of thirteen Clark was enlisted in the family business. Between 1961 and 1963 he studied at a commercial photography school, before returning to his hometown, where he began the series that would become his first book, Tulsa, published in 1971. Shot over a period of seven years, it documents the lives of Clark and his friends with a visceral honesty, illustrating their existence on the margins of society. Although primarily concerned with themes of drugs, sex and violence, Tulsawas lauded for its graphic yet sensitive representation of young Americans, inaugurating a raw, confessional photographic style that candidly engaged a lived experience and which would exert a profound influence over photographers and filmmakers including Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese.
In his subsequent photographic series, such as Teenage Lust (1983) and The Perfect Childhood (1992) Clark continued to pursue important social concerns, from the construction of masculine identity in American culture, to the exploitation of teenagers by the mass media and dysfunctional family relationships. Throughout the 1990s, Clark drew on the cinematic and narrative qualities of his photographs, as he began the transition from still images to working in film. In 1995, he released his first feature film, Kids – a seminal, coming-of-age portrait of the lives of a group of New York City teens – which premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. Clark’s other film projects include Another Day in Paradise (1998), Ken Park(2002), Wassup Rockers (2005), and Marfa Girl (2012), which was released independently on the artist’s website and was awarded the Golden Marcus Aurelius Prize at the 7th Rome Film Festival. His most recent feature, The Smell of Us (2014), was written and filmed in Paris, France.
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“Three years before making his cult movie Kids in 1995, Tulsa born director Larry Clark began documenting people and his friends, which later continued by photographing atmosphere on the set, cast and everyone he was interacting with during that period. The hobby extended during the later Clark movies like Bully (2001), Ken Park (2002), and Wassup Rockers (2005), among others.
Now, the 71-year-old artist has decided to give the opportunity to all of his fans and followers of hiswork to get an original p[rint made by Clark during the period 1992-2010 and, unlike all the previous times.
The sale will take place in Los Angeles & New York, and it will last only for a week. The collection of photographs also includes outtakes from a calendar shoot for the street brand Supreme as well as many unique portraits, self portraits and various snapshots.”