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Outcry as Paris bans under 18s from Larry Clark exhibition

7 October 2010 9:19 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Adolescents feature in pictures taken by American photographer but people of similar age cannot enter gallery to see his work

In his photographs, they make love, explore their bodies, take drugs and drink alcohol.

But if Larry Clark's adolescent subjects showed up in Paris tomorrow for the opening of a retrospective of his work, they would not be allowed in: pre-empting legal issues caused by the explicit nature of some of Clark's pictures, the city hall has decided to ban under 18s.

Clark, an American photographer and film director, called the move "an attack on youth" – and the mairie of Paris has come under fire from all sides as critics accused it of self-censorship.

The French human rights league condemned the decision to ban minors from Paris's Museum of Modern Art (Mam) as "backward and reactionary".

And Fabrice Hergott, a curator at the gallery, insisted that Clark's photographs "have »

- Lizzy Davies

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