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pplpod Episode 97 dives into Larry Clark’s raw, unflinching gaze—how a photographer from Tulsa turned private subcultures into public arguments. We track the landmark photobooks Tulsa and Teenage Lust: grainy flash, diaristic candor, and a trust-with-subjects approach that made intimacy feel dangerous and tender at once. Then the pivot to film—Kids with writer Harmony Korine—its shockwave through ’90s indie cinema, and a run that kept interrogating youth, risk, and consequence: Another Day in Paradise, Bully, Ken Park, Wassup Rockers, Marfa Girl. Along the way we unpack method (embedded observation, nonprofessional casts, skateboard-and-street vernacular), the ethics fights (consent, exploitation, censorship), and the influence that rippled through fashion, music videos, and ...