Robert “Bob” Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait and commercial photography.
Carlos Clarke produced six books during his career: The Illustrated Delta of Venus (1980), Obsession (1981), The Dark Summer (1985), White Heat (1990), Shooting Sex (2002), Love Dolls Never Die (2004), and one DVD, Too Many Nights (2006).
His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Table of Contents
- 1 Personal life
- 2 Death
- 3 Life and work
- 3.1 Obsession
- 3.2 Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke
- 3.3 Two Knives 2X Matted 28x36 Large Gold Ornate Framed Art Print by Bob Carlos Clarke
- 3.4 Rare -Bob Carlos Clarke The Illustrated Delta of Venus Anais Nin Erotic Photographs HC
- 3.5 OBSESSIONS.
- 3.6 Professional Photography Magazine # 7 (Bob Carlos Clarke)
- 3.7 Two Knives 2X Matted 28x36 Large Black Ornate Framed Art Print by Bob Carlos Clarke
- 3.8 The Dark Summer
- 3.9 Two Knives 28x36 Framed Art Print by Clarke, Bob Carlos
- 3.10 PHOTO 222 MARS 1986 COVER SADE CREATURE BOB CARLOS CLARKE CUIR NORMAN PARKINSON DAVID BAILEY RIDGERS
Personal life
While at Worthing he met Sue Frame, later his first wife. Knowing that she was a part-time model he “knew he had to become a photographer without delay” and persuaded her to pose for him upon a chromed 650 cc Triumph Bonneville. In 1975, a couple of years later, they married at Kensington Registry Office.
Death
Carlos Clarke operating suicide on 25 March 2006. He is survived by his wife Lindsey and their daughter. He is buried in West Brompton cemetery.[citation needed]
Life and work
Carlos Clarke was born in Cork, Ireland and educated at over one English public school (boarding schools, at that period single sex). They included Wellington College, Berkshire. After bookish after a gap in Dublin full of zip in various low level positions at advertising agencies and newspapers as a trainee journalist and a brief spell in Belfast in 1969, Carlos Clarke moved back to England in the latter half of 1970 and enrolled in Worthing College of Art in West Sussex.
By 1975 he had moved to Brixton, London, and enrolled in the London College of Printing. He far along went upon to complete an MA from the Royal College of Art in photography, graduating in 1975.
He initially in 1969 or 70 began photographing nudes as a means of making money; using his fellow students as models he shot for Paul Raymond Publications, Men Only and Club International.
Carlos Clarke’s first skirmish with photographing models in rubber and latex was an experience when a gentleman called ‘The Commander’, a publisher of a magazine for devotees of rubber wear who had contacted Carlos Clarke to shoot for his publication. Allen Jones was a good buddy of Carlos Clarke. His produce a result drew heavily upon fetishism and he advised the younger photographer to lay off the fetish scene. He is “often referred to as the British Helmut Newton”.
Last update 2021-08-06