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[email protected] Ken Light: Coal Hollow LARRY CLARK March 11 – June 5, 2005 On view from December 9, 2005 through February 26, 2006 FIRST AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE OF THIS Media Preview INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER’S WORK December 8, 2005 TO BE SHOWN AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY9:30 - 11am RSVP:
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[email protected] or 212.857.0045 Ken Light Laura, forty-five years old, on laundry day, Crane Creek Hollow, West Virginia, 2002 Gelatin silver print The International ©Center Ken Light of Photography (ICP) will present the first American retrospective of the work of Larry Clark, one of the most important and influential American photographers of the Social documentary photographer Ken Light’s stark and moving black-and-white photographs will second half of the 20th century, from March 11 through June 5, 2005. The exhibition, Larry Clark, be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) will include the full spectrum of Clark’s work, spanning five decades and as many media. from December 9, 2005 through February 26, 2006. Ken Light: Coal Hollow is a collection of twenty photographs taken by the photographer over three years, from 1999 through 2002, which expose Beginning with his landmark book Tulsa (1971), Clark has produced an extraordinary range of the social consequences of the deterioration of the once booming coal mining business in West photographs and films.