"'Still shocking today': Larry Clark's Addiction Images - In Pictures"

When the director and photographer returned home from Vietnam aged 20, he began photographing his intimate circle of friends – and their heroin use.

Larry Clark was 16 in 1962, when he and his friends started shooting a drug store nasal inhaler that contained amphetamine. When he returned to his hometown of Tulsa at 20, after two years in Vietnam, he took heroin. Clark upended traditional documentary photography by turning his camera on himself and his social circle, producing a series of raw and intimate photographs. Clark revisits his photos from that time in a new book. Return is published by Stanley/Barker. 

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