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Larry Clark: The Perfect Childhood (Scalo)

Publisher: Zürich (Zurich): Scalo Verlag, 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 3931141128
Condition: As New / As New
Item #: 101105

$250.00

Specifics

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item.

First edition thus, first Scalo printing. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. Photographs by Larry Clark. 175 pp. with 110 four-color and 48 duotone plates. 11 x 9 inches. Not distributed in the United States. Out of print.

Condition

As New in As New dust jacket.

Description

Includes Clark's controversial black and white photographs from the "Tulsa" and Teenage Lust" work, as well as previously unpublished color and black and white images.

From the publisher: "Larry Clark's work has always obsessively circled around adolescent boys, their awakening sexual drives, the enormous energies they have to harness. Clark offers the viewer a cultural anthropology of this transitory period that oscillates between painful pleasure and exuberant self-destruction. Clark is spellbound with the vital, unruly, and destructive force teen boys exude. Clark confronts us with lucid images of male sexuality and its equally creative and destructive impulses. He combines pop-culture imagery with his own photographs to evoke a myth ingrained in the heart of our culture.

The Perfect Childhood combines an overview of Clark's work-ranging from collages and found images to photographs from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's-with a new series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater boy-the latest incarnation of the mythical eternal youth Clark investigates and idolizes in his work. Material from the past 30 years is combined to create one new work of art-overwhelming proof of the consistency of Clark's artistic vision. The book is as raunchy and brutally straightforward as it is melancholy and affectionate. Its attitude will confound all those thinking in comfortable and complacent opposites-gay and straight, creative and destructive, tenderness and violence, good and evil. Clark's work is a mirror for those strong enough to face the truth about growing up as a boy."