15 Facts About Larry Clark

Larry Clark's mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and he was enlisted in the family business from the age of 14.

Larry Clark's father was a traveling sales manager for the Reader Service Bureau, selling books and magazines door-to-door, and was rarely home.

Larry Clark attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerhard Bakker.

Larry Clark's follow-up was Teenage Lust, an "autobiography" of his teen past through the images of others.

Larry Clark constructed a photographic essay titled "The Perfect Childhood" that examined the effect of media in youth culture.

Larry Clark's photographs are part of public collections at several art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1993, Larry Clark directed Chris Isaak's music video "Solitary Man".

Larry Clark continued directing, filming a handful of additional independent feature films in the several years after this.

In 2002, Larry Clark spent several hours in a police cell after punching and trying to strangle Hamish McAlpine, the head of Metro Tartan, the UK distributor for Ken Park.

Larry Clark confessed that the only exception made to his practice of abstinence while filming was Marfa Girl.

Larry Clark explained that while filming that movie he used opiates for pain due to double knee replacement surgery.

The film was not released in the United States, but Larry Clark says that it was because of the producer's failure to get releases for the music used.

In 2015, Larry Clark collaborated alongside notable skateboard and clothing brand, Supreme, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kids with a collection of decks, T-shirts, and sweatshirts that feature stills from the iconic film.

Larry Clark has won the top prizes at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier, the Stockholm Film Festival and the Rome Film Festival.

Larry Clark has competed for the Golden Palm and Golden Lion.