After a near-death health scare, photographer and film director Larry Clark has something on his mind...
As a photographer who used teenage drugies, skaters, and naked young women as his subjects for photographs that now sell for 10 to 15 thousand dollars a print, Clark has decided to give back to the "skate rats" who he photographed, along with thousands of fans who attend his showings but can't afford his prints.
In an admirable selfless initiative, Clark is selling hundreds of his 4x6 and 5x7 prints he had in his NYC apartment, and donating 100% of the proceeds to Communities in Schools — an organization thats mission is to "surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life."
Clark is truly giving back to the people who lent their drug abuse, physical abuse, underage sex, naked bodies and general way of life to his own personal financial and professional success...
There are rumors going around that Clark is attempting to "pay back" these people by selling the photos for $100 each for his own profit.
It would be one thing if this was true and it was just to (rightfully) make money by selling his unseen works. But, since he's been published around the media as saying he wanted to do something for these people, I can't imagine these rumors are true!
That would be a fucked-up marketing ploy. That would be bullshit.
(photo: Helmut Newton)
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