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Larry Clark Bio
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Larry Clark Larry Clark was born in 1943, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is perhaps best known for his role as writer, director, and producer of films revolving around controversial adolescence. Clark began developing his interest in photography when he was a kid, thanks in part to his mother who was a baby photographer.
Clark attended Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and then attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the age of sixteen he began shooting amphetamines. In 1971, Clark published his first book, Tulsa, which was a black and white photo documentary of his friends’ drug use. The book went on to inspire such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Gus Van Sant. Following high school, Clark was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War.
In 1983, Clark published his second photographic book titled Teenage Lust, which was meant to be an autobiography of his and his friends’ teenage past. Some features of the book include personal family photos and shots of boy hustlers on the streets of New York City.
In the early 1990s, Clark met with a young writer by the name of Harmony Korine, who was living in New York at the time. Together they began working on their first screenplay.
In 1995, Clark released his first feature film, Kids, which was based on the screenplay. The film was critically acclaimed and became very controversial subject matter for the time. Kids has become one of Clark’s most successful films to date. The film starred a cast of young, unknown actors including Leo Fitzpatrick, Chloe Sevigny, and Rosario Dawson.
Other films that Clark has created include Another Day in Paradise in 1997, starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith; Bully in 2001, starring Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Philips, Nick Stahl, Michael Pitt, and Leo Fitzpatrick; Teenage Caveman in 2002, starring Andrew Keegan and Tiffany Limos; Ken Park in 2002, starring Tiffany Limos; Wassup Rockers in 2005; and Destricted in 2006.
Clark’s films are intended to open up lines of discussion on subject matter that is considered socially taboo. Many critics disagree with him on this point, saying that his films are borderline child pornography due to the fact that most of his cast members are portrayed as young teens who often engage in casual sex. Most of his films also involve kids as young as twelve with a violent nature drinking alcohol and using drugs.
The film Ken Park has yet to be released worldwide due to its violent graphic nature that is also more sexually explicit than Kids, portraying a young teen participating in autoerotic asphyxiation. Both Kids and Ken Park have received ratings of NC-17.
Clark is known to date the female cast members in his films that are almost always much younger than he is. Some of his past flames include Chloe Sevigny, Bijou Philips, and Rachel Miner. He is now in his sixties and splits his time between homes in New York and Los Angeles. He has two children, a son and a daughter. YUDDY |
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Larry Clark - Made the film 'Kids .'
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Larry Clark - Chloe Sevigny starred in Larry Clark's 'Kids.' |
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Larry Clark - Rosario Dawson starred in Larry Clark's 'Kids.' |
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