These images are from Clark’s series Tulsa (1971). They are
portraits are of his closest friends from hometown shooting Valo, a nasal
inhaler with a fair amount of amphetamine in it, and morphine. In the essay
Clark wrote to go along with this series, he tells all about how his friends
were often in and out, mostly in, jail for burglaries and possession. His
photographs have a snapshot aesthetic and are heavily influenced by his
perspective. By that I mean, these photographs make the viewer feel like they have
an in with this group of people. They were taken from within a fairly intimate
distance, and the expressions and actions of the subjects relay a kind of
closeness as if the camera wasn’t present at all. Clark uses shadow and raw
emotion/experience in his photographs, there are images that I don’t feel he
planned at all, in fact I think most of his work in this series are real moments
that he captured without any kind of direction.
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