Adolescent beauty, completely uninhibited sexuality, drugs and violence – this is what Larry Clark’s pictures deal with. With his work he revolutionized photo journalism: No other photographer before him has shown reality in a more drastic and realistic way. As opposed to the classical, neutral, matter-of-fact photo-journalist, Larry Clark himself is also part of the scene he photographs. And you also feel that he has a familiarity with the persons he portrays rather than just observing them.
With his pictures, Larry Clark not only criticizes predominat moral standards, he also creates a new, unconventional form of beauty. Even though we somehow got used to this aesthetic, everything that we see in publications such as VICE would be unthinkable without Larry Clark.
Right now, there is an exhibition running at C/O Berlin that features some of Larry Clark’s most important pictures. Check out a small preview after the jump.
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by Jens | Art
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What’s up in Berlin this week? The DMY, that’s what’s up! And along with the big design festival at Tempelhof Airport come a truckload of satellite events all over the city. We also have some nice exhibition openings this week as well as a very awesome Berghain party with the hottest acts in town. These and more events after the jump.
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by Frank | Art, Fashion, Movies, Music, Party
Arnold Newman, “Pablo Picasso. Painter. Vallauris, France. 1954”
The art week starts, less dingy and more militant than the last one, with capitalism killing love, and it ends with a deathly poets’ battle at Volksbühne. In the meantime, two outstanding photography exhibitions crystallize to be the weekend’s highlights: Candida Höfer presents bombastic still lifes, and C/O Berlin dignifies Arnold Newman‘s portrait shots of the creative elite in a large retrospective. Additionally, Allan Kaprow – the godfather of “happenings” – is reanimated and there is a group show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien that sorts out the black market of translations. Get all the information after the jump…
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by Anna-Lena | Art, Misc.
photos: Gundula Schulze Eldowy
Gundula Schulze Eldowy – this strange name stands for the most important female photographer of the GDR. More about this incredible personality and pictures after the jump.
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by Jens | Art, Galleries, Places
