Tulsa

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In his collages and videos of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he broadened this investigation into revealing the ways that mass media alternately creates, rejects, and eroticizes young people. Here, the early black-and-white vérité style is replaced by a lingering, brightly-hued gaze that sometimes looks like a street-fashion shoot. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, among others.

Like many of his other works, Clark presents a dynamic portrayal of troubled teens, juxtaposing their youthful innocence and dark lifestyles, reminding the reader that "Once the needle goes in it never comes out. Tulsa demonstrated a new style of photography that was subjective, alienated and completely detached from any social agenda.Because of his subsequent heroin addiction, it took Clark 10 years to complete Teenage Lust, which was finally published in 1983. The lighting is natural, the composition often classic, and there’s a lot of poignancy and humanity on display as these young people spiral away. Softcover, 60 pages with additional blank leaf at rear, no specific title page but identified as Lustrum Press and with the photographer's introduction identified as L.

Some chipping, rubbing and wear to the dustcover edge with several one inch tears along the head and base of the spine now protected with a Mylar cover. With an extensive collection of more than 106,000 rare and unique volumes relating to the history of art, the Jean Outland Chrysler Library is one of the most significant art libraries in the South. Clark's long-lost film, Tulsa, which was shot in 16mm in 1968 and rediscovered in 2010, will also be screened – an altogether more experimental precursor to the movies that followed, including Kids and Ken Park, and full of graphic sex.And yet he survived, like Nan Goldin after him, by picking up a camera and shooting the chaos of his crazy life – even as he wanted to do anything but that. Born on January 19, 1943 in Tulsa, OK, Clark studied at a commercial photography school after working as an assistant to his mother, who worked as a portrait photographer of children. His large-scale retrospective “Kiss The Past Hello” was exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010, and he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Galerie Urbi et Orbi in Paris, the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo, and at the International Center of Photography in New York.