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LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (TEENAGE LUST) signed "LARRY CLARK" in pencil below image g

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LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (TEENAGE LUST) signed  LARRY CLARK  in pencil below image g
LARRY CLARK (American, b. 1943) UNTITLED (TEENAGE LUST) signed "LARRY CLARK" in pencil below image gelatin silver print 8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm) 1972 an unnumbered example from an edition of 25 from Teenage Lust series ESTIMATE: $4,000-6,000 PROVENANCE Donated by artist to benefit The Momentum AIDS Outreach Program at St. Peter's Church, NEW YORK, 1988 Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Larry Clark, TEENAGE LUST, New York, 1983, cover image (illustrated) Larry Clark, finding beauty in the illicit or depraved, has documented the youth culture with themes of sex, violence and drugs. Marked by the drug addiction and raw sexuality of his own teen and early adult years, Clark wants "to present the way kids see things, but without all this baggage...they're living in the moment not thinking about anything beyond that and that's what I wanted to catch. And I wanted the viewer to feel like you're there with them...smoking dope, having sex..." In the late 1970s, after several convictions, Clark spent 19 months in an Oklahoma maximum security prison. Earlier, Clark had received a $5,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which ironically was spent on legal fees. Clark managed to finally publish Teenage Lust, his second book, in 1983. Well into his 30s, he still spent time with teenage runaways photographing them as they took drugs, had sex and prostituted themselves. In the 1990s, Clark made the acclaimed motion picture Kids, to some a film version of Teenage Lust, which was released in 1995 (legally permissible only because the actors appeared to be under-age).