The Perfect Childhood
Clark, Larry255 USD
Date
1993
Category
Photography
Description
The Perfect Childhood is an overview of Clark's work from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's coupled with a later series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater boy—his latest incarnation of eternal youth. Clark confronts us with lucid, melancholy images of male adolescence in its wide-eyed, destructive glory.
First edition. Hardcover. 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.
Excerpt
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."
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