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LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (42ND STREET BOYS) signed

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LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (42ND STREET BOYS) signed
LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (42ND STREET BOYS) signed "Larry Clark" in pencil on verso vintage gelatin silver print 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm) 1979-1980 from the TEENAGE LUST series PROVENANCE Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Larry Clark, TEENAGE LUST, NEW YORK, 1983, n.p. (illustrated) After the critical success of his first book, TULSA, Larry Clark received an NEA grant that allowed him to publish a second volume of photographs. Released in 1983, TEENAGE LUST expanded the local terrain of TULSA with pictures shot in California, Mexico, New York, and elsewhere. Befitting this wide range of locations, Clark's new photographs often featured runaway teenagers and chronicled their peripatetic lives of prostitution and drug abuse. TEENAGE LUST closes with a sequence of photographs shot in midtown Manhattan during the early 1980s. Several of these images, including the present work, capture scenes of prostitution along 42nd Street. Here a young man stands with his back to the camera, announcing his neighborhood with the sparkling decal on his shirt. A glimpse of his smiling face suggests both the cocky hauteur of a streetwise kid and a trace of human vulnerability amidst the gritty urban environment. "I got off the subway at 42nd Street," Clark recalls. "And I got my camera. And I've always loved 42nd Street. It's always been my favorite street in New York.... There's that innocence there. A lot of the 42nd Street pictures are just that. I mean, some of the pictures of the kids when I first met them and they were looking at me with those come-on looks.... I thought that was so obvious, but nobody had a clue these kids were hustling" (Larry Clark, TEENAGE LUST, 1983, p. 27).
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