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Your name: Christopher Liberatore      

Photographers name: Larry Clark

Title of Photograph: Dead, 1970

Artist Bio:

Education?: Clark attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, where he studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerhard Bakker. In 1964 he moved to New York City to freelance but was drafted within two months to serve in the Vietnam War.

Upbringing?: Clark was brought up in Tulsa Oklahoma. Mother was a itinerant

baby photographer and enlisted himself in the family business at age 13.

Art experience?: He attended the Layton School of Art. In 1971 he published Tulsa which included family photos, more teenage drug use, graphic pictures of teenage sexual activity, and young male hustlers in Times Square.

Artistic Background:

Did your artists work in other artistic Mediums (paint, clay etc?) no

Why is he or she a photographer? He became involved in photography at a young age and has stuck with it. 

What inspires his/her work? Drug Use, teenage sex

Has your artists encountered any hardships or successes in his or her life that are directly reflected in their work?  Yes, at a young age clark became involved in shooting amphetamines. (1959) This obviously shows in the pictures and films that Clark has directed. 

Your image:

Why did you select this image?

I selected this because it is one of the cleanest pictures that I could find.  Most of his other pictures include nudity or drug use.

How would you describe your photographers style? (in your own words)

Very obscene and straight forward.

After researching the photographer what have you found most interesting about his/her photographic style or image production?

I have found that mostly everything he has produced whether it be movies or photographs, they have been very obscene.

How are you planning to recreate your photographers image? 

I plan to either have one of my guy or girl friends pose for it with either a paintball gun or an airsoft gun.

What images do you anticipate taking to recreated this image? (i.e. describe the shots you intend to take to reach your final goal)

I might set up in a place with a dark background and blur it out. 

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