Armed Robbers, Oklahoma City

1975, printed 1981

Not on view

A child of Eisenhower’s straitlaced and conformist 1950s America, Clark saw the camera as a way to "turn back the years" and photograph a younger crowd doing the kinds of things he either did or wanted to have done when he himself was a teenager—shooting drugs, shacking up with prostitutes, and committing all manner of crimes. Because of the nature of who and what he was photographing, almost all of Clark’s work from this period would become memorial in nature. This double portrait makes manifest the dangerous allure that is often attached to portrayals of criminality.

Artwork Details

Title: Armed Robbers, Oklahoma City
Artist: Larry Clark (American, born 1943)
Date: 1975, printed 1981
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 30.5 x 20.2 cm. (12 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1994
Object Number: 1994.373.3
Rights and Reproduction: © Larry Clark
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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