In this world, most people get to be teenagers for exactly seven years. And then there's the artist Larry Clark. Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1943, Clark has been living and reliving the teen experience for some six decades.
His photograph books -- including "Tulsa" (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983) -- and his films -- including "Kids" (1995) and "Bully" (2001) -- are dispatches on youth culture from The Wrong Side of the Tracks, USA.
Here is a greasy-haired delinquent sucking on a joint; there a spoon, cork, eyedropper and syringe arranged like talismans on a bedside table; elsewhere a boy and girl embracing, beautifully stretched out on a carpet littered with cigarette butts.