Larry Clark
November 9, 2010
In 1971, a monograph called Tulsa caused a cultural uproar over its frank depictions of sex, drugs, and other vices of a certain rarely clothed subset of american youth. This kind of honest, blatant, and often shocking portrait style would come to define Larry Clark’s aesthetic throughout his career. A retrospective in paris this month confirms that the 67-year-old photographer and director still stands as one of America’s true outsider artists-an ironic position for a man who captured so many alienated kids by being on the inside.