THE RED COUCH
REVISITED
One couch. Many people. Many stories. One idea.
A long story short
A LIFE IN
PROJECTS.
Kunst und Medien
Anti-catalog to Documenta 6, Kassel. Published with the collective Stadtzeitung und Verlag — it outsold the official catalog, 44,000 copies in 100 days.
Kaufhauswelt
A black-and-white sociological study of the employees of the KaDeWe department store in West Berlin. Winner of the Kodak Book Award. Exhibited at the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
The Red Couch
Roughly one hundred color photographs of Americans from all walks of life seated on the same red velvet couch, transported across the continent. Text by William Least Heat Moon. Represented U.S. photography at the Rencontres d’Arles, 1985.
AWE
A worldwide pursuit of Halley’s Comet. A series of night portraits about awe — reverence and shudder.
DNA Portraits
After contact with Applied Biosystems, Clarke became the first person to have an individual DNA sequence decoded. He fused a metaphoric photograph with the subject’s genetic sequence — a portrait that shows no likeness yet is the most specific ever made.
From the Blood of Poets
DNA portraits dedicated to American artist friends, inspired by Picasso’s studio gatherings after a completed work.
The Invisible Body
Two series of thirteen portraits — New York and Wiesbaden — an homage to Leonardo’s Last Supper. James D. Watson (discoverer of DNA structure) anchored New York; Ute Berger anchored Wiesbaden.
Mikey Flowers 9/11
Photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center fused with the DNA sequences of survivors — an optimistic counterpoint to the forensic use of DNA that identified the dead.
NewCircles
A meditative series of concentric circular images — genetics made geometric.