Drug use is another frequent topic in Clark’s films. Many of his characters are shown using drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Drug use is often portrayed as a way for teenagers to escape from the pressures of everyday life. However, it can also lead to addiction and other problems.

On the other hand, how "true" is this image? When Clark was just a kid in 1963, photographing his friends, he could see them as whole people. However, by the time he was completing Tulsa in 1971, he had a preconceived narrative to convey, and his subjects appear as symbols rather than individuals. Hoggard, Liz (November 17, 2002). "Hamish McAlpine: controversial film boss". the Guardian . Retrieved July 30, 2018. My father led two lives that rarely intersected. Family members were often the unwitting participants in indecipherable events that left us with many more questions than answers. Mysterious strangers would show up at our apartment late at night only to depart before dawn without saying a word to anyone other than my father. Peculiar encounters, curious radio transmissions, and unexplained coincidences became the norms of my childhood. Larry Clark’s brutally frank personal testament has achieved almost mythic status. In revealing his own personal involvement as both participant and voyeur, Tulsa set the precedent for an entire generation of artists engaged in the exploration of taboo subject matter. Clark chose the ten images that comprise this portfolio as a selection of the most iconic images from Tulsa. Status Currently Off View Department Contemporary Art Artist Larry Clark Title Tulsa Place United States (Artist's nationality:) DateAmphetamine began as a drug without a diagnosis. Benzedrine, the first amphetamine available in the United States, came to market in 1933. The drug's initial indication was nasal congestion, but its more potent effects of mood elevation and appetite suppression led to amphetamine's success as an antidepressant and weight-loss medication. The drug's popularity grew, in part due to pharmaceutical companies' denial of its addictive potential. In the 1940s, many in the medical community asserted that amphetamines caused habituation rather than addiction ( 3, 4). Despite prevailing attitudes, a handful of prescient psychiatrists published on the deleterious effects of amphetamine. In 1947, American military psychiatrists documented widespread misuse of stimulant inhalers in a military prison, finding that discontinuation of the drug reliably precipitated withdrawal ( 5). In 1957, a British psychiatric trainee published a groundbreaking series of 42 cases of amphetamine addiction, many with drug-induced psychosis ( 6). As evidence of amphetamine's addictiveness mounted, the drug's supporters shifted blame to those with addiction. By the 1960s, billions of tablets of amphetamine were produced each year, and illicit use swelled. Recreational users were derogatorily termed "speed freaks" ( 3, 4).

The Philbrook main campus spans 23 acres of grounds and formal gardens, and features an historic home displaying the museum’s permanent collection, as well as an architectural addition with auditorium, restaurant, library, and education studios. The satellite location in downtown Tulsa showcases special exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as the Eugene B. Adkins Collection and Study Center of Native American art.

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Ebert, Roger. "Another Day In Paradise Movie Review (1999) - Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com . Retrieved July 30, 2018.

Broadcast Yourself". YouTube. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020 . Retrieved September 22, 2010. It is hard not to see Clark's continuing obsession with teen culture as a reaction to his own upbringing. Likewise, the turbulent and occasionally self-destructive lifestyle he embraced as a young man. He was, he says, 'always a loner, running fast'. He served in Vietnam from 1964 to 1966 in a unit that supplied ammunition to the troops up-country. Even that experience, though, did not impinge on his outlaw lifestyle. There is something about Clarke that defies cynicism. He seems both street tough and oddly vulnerable, and seems obsessed for reasons he has no interest in exploring - except through photography - with the ever-shifting iconography of adolescence: the slang, the dress codes, the haircuts. It's anthropology of a kind, but it's all surface.

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People think the film is improvised, [and it isn’t] except for one little scene of the four boys on the couch. They showed up one night and I pushed them on the couch, and told them to start talking, and they were smoking weed and high as a kite. And they were 12, 13 years old. That’s in the film and that’s the only improvised scene. Every other word in the film is scripted by Harmony. He wrote a brilliant screenplay. But Harmony was a kid, he was kind of a mean kid, and he was entertaining because he was funny but he was kind of mean. When he made Gummo some of that meanness came out. … Harmony was young and being that young, it shows in Gummo that he is goofing on people, which I would never do. But Harmony is a brilliant screenwriter and did a brilliant job with Kids. And I love him, Harmony’s okay. Rasmussen N: On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. New York, New York University Press, 2008 Google Scholar In a 2016 interview, Clark discussed his lifelong struggle with drug abuse, although stating he maintained total sobriety while filmmaking. He confessed that the only exception made to his practice of abstinence while filming was Marfa Girl. Clark explained that while filming that movie he used opiates for pain due to double knee replacement surgery. [3] Films [ edit ] You started mainlining speed at the age of 15. That’s pretty hardcore. Why did you feel the need to do that? Medium Portfolio of 10 gelatin silver prints, edition number six of fifty Dimensions Four prints, each: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.); Six prints, each: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.); Installed: 81.3 × 243.9 cm (32 × 96 in.); Six prints: 25.4 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 in.); 81.3 × 243.9 cm (32 × 96 in.) Credit Line Gift of Society for Contemporary Art Reference Number 2004.156.1-10 Extended information about this artwork