(Boy Holding His Leg)

Photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark is known predominantly for his visceral and unflinching depictions of youth culture in his work—and is often deemed controversial. Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1943, and fostered his skill and technique in photography through an assistantship with his mother, who was a travelling baby photographer. Later, he undertook two years of commercial photography training, before garnering attention (and notoriety) with his first publication of photographs in 1971, titled Tulsa. Taken between 1963 and 1971, Tulsa is within the vein of documentary photography, and depicts the raw and unfiltered unground drug scene of his home city, and often incorporates images of sex and violence that so often accompanies these scenes. Today Clark lives and works between Los Angeles, California, and New York, New York

Tulsa, USA