Background
Lawrence Donald Clark was born on January 19, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
(The catalog is designed as a triptych gatefold album cove...)
The catalog is designed as a triptych gatefold album cover and thus reflects the themes of the retrospective in both form and content: youth culture, sexuality, and music.
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2012
(First edition thus, first Scalo printing. Hardcover. Pape...)
First edition thus, first Scalo printing. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. 175 pp. with 110 four-color and 48 duotone plates. Includes Clark's controversial black and white photographs from the "Tulsa" and Teenage Lust" work, as well as previously unpublished color and black and white images. 11 x 9 inches.
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(In Kids (1995), his most widely known film, boys portraye...)
In Kids (1995), his most widely known film, boys portrayed as being as young as 12 are shown to be casually drinking alcohol and using other drugs. The film received an NC-17 rating, and was later released without a rating when Disney bought Miramax.
https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Leo-Fitzpatrick/dp/6304726953/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(An exhilarating portrayal of a family of professional thi...)
An exhilarating portrayal of a family of professional thieves on a cross country crime spree. James Woods and Melanie Griffith are a scheming couple who "adopt" two young lovers in order to teach them the ropes of criminal life.
https://www.amazon.com/Another-Day-Paradise-James-Woods/dp/B07QZZF4C6/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Ken Park is a more sexually and violently graphic film th...)
Ken Park is a more sexually and violently graphic film than Kids, including a scene of auto-erotic asphyxiation and ejaculation by an emotionally rattled high-school boy. As of 2015, it has not been widely released or distributed in the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Uncut-Uncensored-Region-Larry-Clark/dp/B001AZKB8K/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American an...)
Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dangerous home turf is an everyday challenge. The climax of the film occurs out on a skate-ride around Beverly Hills, California. Racial tension fumes the air of Beverly Hills as the pack of skaters effortlessly manages to coincidentally run into trouble. Janice Dickinson makes an appearance in the film as a rich alcoholic divorcee whose Spanish-speaking maid help Los Rockers & fashion designer Jeremy Scott appears as a photographer.
https://www.amazon.com/Wassup-Rockers-Jonathan-Velasquez/dp/B000IHYVTG/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(The film follows Adam, a directionless 16-year-old living...)
The film follows Adam, a directionless 16-year-old living in the working class town of Marfa, Texas, and his sexual relationships with his teenage girlfriend, twenty-something neighbor, an aggressive local artist, and his pregnant high school teacher, while an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent watches over the neighborhood. What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town.
https://www.amazon.com/Marfa-Girl-NON-USA-Format-Region/dp/B01EDAKCXW/?tag=2022091-20
2012
Lawrence Donald Clark was born on January 19, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
Lawrence Donald Clark learned photography at an early age. His mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and he was enlisted in the family business from the age of 13. His father was a traveling sales manager for the Reader Service Bureau, selling books and magazines door-to-door, and was rarely home. In 1959, he began injecting amphetamines with his friends.
Lawrence Donald Clark attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerhard Bakker.
In 1964, Lawrence Clark moved to New York City to freelance, but was drafted within two months into the United States Army. From 1964 to 1965, he served in the Vietnam War in a unit that supplied ammunition to units fighting in the north. His experiences there led him to publish the 1971 book Tulsa, a photo documentary illustrating his young friends' drug use in black and white.
Routinely carrying a camera, from 1963 to 1971 Lawrence Clark produced pictures of his drug-shooting coterie that have been described by critics as "exposing the reality of American suburban life at the fringe and ... shattering long-held mythical conventions that drugs and violence were an experience solely indicative of the urban landscape."
His follow-up was Teenage Lust (1983), an "autobiography" of his teen past through the images of others. It included his family photos, more teenage drug use, graphic pictures of teenage sexual activity, and young male hustlers in Times Square, New York City. Lawrence Clark constructed a photographic essay titled "The Perfect Childhood" that examined the effect of media in youth culture. His photographs are part of public collections at several art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In 1993, Lawrence Clark directed Chris Isaak's music video "Solitary Man". This experience developed into an interest in film direction. After publishing other photographic collections, Clark met Harmony Korine in New York City and asked Korine to write the screenplay for his first feature film Kids, which was released to controversy and mixed critical reception in 1995. He continued directing, filming a handful of additional independent feature films in the several years after this.
In 2001, Lawrence Clark shot three features Bully, Ken Park, and Teenage Caveman over a span of nine months. As of 2017, they are his last films to feature professional actors.
In 2002, Lawrence Clark spent several hours in a police cell after punching and trying to strangle Hamish McAlpine, the head of Metro Tartan, the UK distributor for Clark's film Ken Park. According to McAlpine, who was left with a broken nose, the incident arose from an argument about Israel and the Middle East, and he claims that he did not provoke Clark.
(The catalog is designed as a triptych gatefold album cove...)
2012(First edition thus, first Scalo printing. Hardcover. Pape...)
(Japanese Version)
1997(Volume 1)
2007(In Kids (1995), his most widely known film, boys portraye...)
1995(The film follows Adam, a directionless 16-year-old living...)
2012(Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American an...)
2005(Ken Park is a more sexually and violently graphic film th...)
2002(An exhilarating portrayal of a family of professional thi...)
1998(Based on the true story about a group of kids who murder ...)
2001Lawrence Clark has one son (Matthew) and one daughter (Julianna).