"Apple Pie and White Picket Fences: Larry Clark’s Un/Common Suburbs" by Matthew Ryan Smith

Selected Works of Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Presentation

Apple Pie and White Picket Fences: Larry Clark’s Un/Common Suburbs

Revisiting Suburbia, York University (2011)

Matthew Ryan Smith, The University of Western Ontario

Abstract

Tulsa is the first photography book or visual material that accurately documents the emerging drug epidemic in the United States from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, and like no other work, captures the desolate underbelly of suburban, middle-class teenage existence.

Keywords

Larry Clark,
Tulsa,
Photography,
Suburbia

Disciplines

Art Practice,
Contemporary Art,
Politics and Social Change,
Theory and Criticism and
Visual Studies

Publication Date

Spring April, 2011

Citation Information

Matthew Ryan Smith. "Apple Pie and White Picket Fences: Larry Clark’s Un/Common Suburbs" Revisiting Suburbia, York University (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthewryansmith/22/