Larry Clarke's personal profile

Larry Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in 1943 and now lives in new york. In 1971, Larry Clarke became famous with a photo album entitled Tulsa. This is a documentary photo album that reflects the drug abuse life of teenagers in the middle of the United States in the 196s. It is said that its image impact is no less than Robert Frank's The American.

Clark, a member of the youth drug abuse group, truly conveys the physical and mental pain and depression of himself and his friends with his sharp, full, powerful and dynamic images.

Clark's presence in the group is not regarded as an external factor because of his own participation. Therefore, he was able to record the most thrilling reality of this group of deviants in depth and faithfully without hindrance.

Clark's documentary method, which is loyal to personal feelings and eliminates the interference of established values on observation and recording, has received more and more responses since then, and has become the forerunner of the popular "private documentary" style since the 198s.

Clark is regarded as a pagan in the history of contemporary western documentary photography. His knowledge of photography obeys his inner needs, and he shoots to solve his inner problems. All the so-called art has nothing to do with him.