Larry Clark

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Larry Clark (2013)

Larry Clark (born January 19, 1943 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American film director and photographer . He currently lives in New York City .

life and work

Larry Clark began photography as an assistant in his mother's photo shop, taking photos of children and babies in the doorstep shop. In 1961 he began studying commercial photography at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee . From 1964 to 1966 he did his military service and also took part in the Vietnam War. This experience made him want to convey the artistic expression of his passion for photography to the outside world. In his first photo book Tulsa , Clark “documented - some would say invented -” the drug scene in his hometown in 1971, long before Nan Goldin or Gus Van Sant followed suit. Teenage Lust shows the sexuality of young people in a hitherto unknown, honest imagery. The photo book The Perfect Childhood shows the new generation of skaters .

Clark's first film, Kids , was about the spread of AIDS (screenplay by Harmony Korine ); it shows minors having sexual intercourse and was not rated for teenagers in the USA . Bully , by Sunfilm Entertainment titled Bully - These Kids Shocked America , is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by American author Jim Schütze. The film shows a documentary-pessimistic picture of a jaded, bored generation of young people who don't know what to do with themselves other than drug excesses and sex. The feature film Ken Park is about the life of adolescents in a small Californian town. The film revolves around the themes of abuse, violence and alienation.

“ Bully examines the complicated context of juvenile killers , not to label them 'evil' but to raise broad questions about social responsibility and ethical definitions. Seen in this way, the film directly attacks the assumption of the 'bad youth', and that even under extreme conditions ”

- Cynthia Fuchs : "The Whole Fucking World Warped around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts

In this essay, Clark himself also refers to “the way we in society perceive young people today.” The magazine Film-Dienst zu Bully : “Larry Clark [...] remains true to his topic, although once again it is not clear whether he wants to be understood as an educator and admonisher or as a provocateur. "

Photo books

Filmography

Exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Larry Clark  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: Larry Clark for the 70th archivist of the lost youth , At: Süddeutsche.de , January 19, 2013
  2. ↑ Lynne Warren (Ed.): Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography . Routledge, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-97665-0 , pp. 284f., Entry on Larry Clark .
  3. ↑ a b c "But ever since he started documenting - some would say inventing - the youth culture American parents would rather not know about" / "Well, you know, because of 'Kids' you're a huge hero to members of that generation. - With 'Kids' I thought I got it right. ”, Salon.com , Larry Clark in conversation with Stephen Lemons. Stephen Lemons: Larry Clark. (No longer available online.) In: Salon.com . July 20, 2001, archived from the original on March 7, 2008 ; accessed on January 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.salon.com
  4. ↑ cf. Nikolaj Nikitin: [url = Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schnitt.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Show everything] . In: “ Schnitt ” for the 10th Oldenburg Film Festival , around 2003. (Accessed on January 22, 2009.)

    “I didn't want this movie to end in hopelessness and make it look like the kids couldn't make it. So my idea was to construct a sex scene around the children to offer them some kind of release. Viewers who saw Ken Park told me that they found this scene not only non-pornographic, but the cleanest scene in the entire film. "

    - Larry Clark
  5. ↑ Cynthia Fuchs in Murray Pomerance: Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen . State University of New York Press, Albany 2004, ISBN 0-7914-5940-3 , pp. 284 ( google.com - " Bully examines the complex contexts of youthful killers, not to label them as' bad, 'but to raise broader questions about social responsibility and ethical definitions. In this way, the film challenges the presumption of' bad kids , 'even in extreme circumstances ").
  6. ↑ Fuchs, p. 275: "the way we're seeing kids in society today".
  7. ↑ Film Service : Bully - These kids shocked America. In: Kabeleins Filmlexikon. SevenOne Intermedia GmbH, accessed on January 22, 2009 .
  8. ^ Sprüth Magers Berlin London Los Angeles: Sprueth Magers :: Artists :: Larry Clark. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento des Originals from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 3, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foam.org
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma, United States