Armed Robbers, Oklahoma City
Larry Clark American
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.
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