Larry Clark

Known for: Tulsa (1971)

Larry Clark photographed his circle of friends in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a participatory rawness — their drug use, sex, and violence — over a period of years in the early 1960s. The photographs were published as Tulsa (1971), a book that had no real precedent in documentary photography and became a central reference for the confessional tradition. He later directed the film Kids (1995), written by Harmony Korine.