Dates: Nov 26 – Dec 24, 2011
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (Roppongi, Tokyo)

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Taka Ishii Photography / Film is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Larry Clark from 26 November to 24 December, 2011. This exhibition, his fourth solo exhibit at Taka Ishii Gallery, will feature approximately 10 vintage prints from 1963 as well as his 1968 film “Tulsa” *.

Many people photograph subject matter that’s potentially very powerful and they just don’t know how to do it. It often happens that photographers shoot people involved in disturbing things and they make them look so horrible that the viewer can say this has nothing to do with me. I depict the people I shoot as real human beings so people relate to them regardless of what they’re doing.

Larry Clark
From Kristine Mckenna, “Larry Clark’s Pictures of Survival,” Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1990

Born 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Clark published “Tulsa” (1971), a collection of works photographed between 1963-1971, consisting of candid shots of his circle of friends in Tulsa indulging in sex, drugs and violence. Since then Clark has continued to present photographs documenting the impulsive and destructive behavior of teenagers such as in “Teenage Lust” (1983), casting his own sympathetic eye.

As a separate media for conveying a narrative, Clark made several short film works throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. In 1995 he directed his first feature film, “Kids”, and continued to present films, such as “Bully” (2001) and “Ken Park” (2003).

In addition to the 1963 vintage prints, we will be screening Clark’s 1968 film “Tulsa,” *which was recently exhibited for the first time at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.

*The film work “Tulsa”(64 min.) will be screened continuously throughout the day, exclusively on December 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th.

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