Growing 1981 Larry Rivers -

Growing was a multi-year documentary project where Rivers filmed his two daughters, Gwynne and Emma, at six-month intervals starting when they were roughly 11 years old. The footage, spanning from 1976 to 1981, recorded their physical development during puberty.

: At the time, Rivers reportedly justified the project to his teenage daughter by telling her that her "intellectual development had been arrested" for not understanding the artistic merit of the work. growing 1981 larry rivers

In the end, 1981 stands as a stark mirror of Larry Rivers’s life. It was the year of the "Golden Era"—the retrospectives in Paris and Germany that hailed him as a genius. It was also the year of the "Dark Era"—the completion of a film that showed how far Rivers would go to break a taboo, even if it meant shattering the lives of his own daughters. Growing was a multi-year documentary project where Rivers