50 Years of Larry Clark on Display

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 represents—probably better than any other photographer's—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. His early black-and-white photography (Tulsa) is rooted in the era of W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus, and has influenced the work of later photographers such as Nan Goldin and Richard Prince and inspired such award-winning films as Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, Rumble Fish by Francis Ford Coppola and Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant. His recent independent feature films (such as Kids, Bully, and Ken Park) show his continuing relevance for contemporary audiences.

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.

“ICP is committed to examining major currents in photography and has a long tradition of organizing exhibitions by artists whose work has been extremely influential, including Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Helmut Newton, Sebastião Salgado, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer,” said ICP Director Willis Hartshorn. “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 artist
Larry 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.” Kids was followed up by Another Day in Paradise (1998), Bully (2001), Teenage Caveman (2001), and Ken Park (2002). He is currently at work on a new film. Clark’s work is represented in the photography collections of nearly every major museum, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

About ICP
The International Center of Photography (ICP) ranks among the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to preserving the past and ensuring the future of photography. As both a museum and a school, ICP fosters the understanding and appreciation of photography as an artistic and educational endeavor.

In its museum exhibitions, ICP presents an extensive array of historical and contemporary photographs that reveal the power and range of the medium, from documentary photography to digital imaging. ICP strives to illuminate how photography expands our vision of the world, through thought-provoking exhibitions that nurture a popular dialogue on key social issues. As part of the institution’s commitment to the broadest and most inclusive definition of photography and its possibilities, ICP celebrates photography’s diversity in many roles: as an agent of social change, as a medium of aesthetic expression, as a tool for scientific or historical research, and as a repository for personal experience and memory.

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