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Cover of Larry Clark's publication "The Perfect Childhood".
Interior view of Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood", with two portraits of young blond boy.
Interior view of Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood", with two-page spread collage.
Interior view of Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood", with photograph of socked foot on sheet.
Interior view of Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood", with image of cartoon and hospital list.

The Perfect Childhood

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Larry Clark
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The Perfect Childhood combines an overview of Clark's work-ranging from collages and found images to photographs from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's-with a new series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater boy-the latest incarnation of the mythical eternal youth Clark investigates and idolizes in his work. Material from the past 30 years is combined to create one new work of art-overwhelming proof of the consistency of Clark's artistic vision. The book is as raunchy and brutally straightforward as it is melancholy and affectionate. Its attitude will confound all those thinking in comfortable and complacent opposites-gay and straight, creative and destructive, tenderness and violence, good and evil. Clark's work is a mirror for those strong enough to face the truth about growing up as a boy.

Published by Scalo, 1995