- Born
- Height1.85 m
- Was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1943). Son of Frances Clark (baby photographer) and Lewis Clark. Graduated from Central High school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerard Bakker. Film debut was the movie Kids (1995). He was already well known for his revolutionary photographic body of work, including the books Tulsa (1971), Teenage Lust (1982), and Perfect Childhood (1992).- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- ParentsLewis ClarkFrances Clark
- Controversial movies about teenage
- His book of photos, Tulsa, inspired several filmmakers and their films: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Francis Ford Coppola's Rusty James (1983), Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and Shin'ya Tsukamoto's Bullet Ballet (1998).
- A Vietnam veteran
- Got into an argument during a dinner with Hamish McAlpine, the British distributor of his upcoming movie Ken Park (2002), over politics. Clark punched him, which prompted McAlpine to pull the movie from the London Festival.
- Turned down an offer to direct American History X (1998).
- An autographed poster of his film Wassup Rockers hangs in Circle Theater, a small theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma (his hometown) that plays independent films and, occasionally, films by University Of Tulsa students.
- I wondered about the availability of porn everywhere and how it affected what they thought about sex, what it was, what influence it had.
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