Tulsa

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Larry Clark is an American photographer and filmmaker known for his raw and unfiltered depictions of youth culture.

C. Stunning autobiographical photo essay of an intravenous drug user with gritty photos of drug addicts, criminals and gun play. Quarto, unpaginated; VG/VG-; spine black, with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; wear to crown and tail of jacket spine; small closed tear and crease to upper edge of jacket back; signed flat by Clark at title page; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; pages clean; shelved Case 11. With an extensive collection of more than 106,000 rare and unique volumes relating to the history of art, the Jean Outland Chrysler Library is one of the most significant art libraries in the South. Clark learned photography early (his mother was a photographer of babies) and there’s a great deal of darkroom technique behind these pictures. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Larry Clark titled "Tulsa" and "Artist's Books" and held at Printed Matter, NYC, July 22 - September 12, 1999.One of Clark's images, of a young girl grinning as she gleefully squirts liquid from a syringe, has never left me. Clark's crisp, haunting black-and-white photos, staying remarkably true to their original American iteration. The raw, haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction and are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared. Some chipping, rubbing and wear to the dustcover edge with several one inch tears along the head and base of the spine now protected with a Mylar cover.

Hardcover, very good in near very good slightly rippled jacket with slight scuffing and light wear to edges.

I remember thinking, 'I have either got to burn all the negatives and shoot myself, or go down to LA and try and get it published. Tulsa is a key work in post-war American photography, containing graphic photographs of sex, violence, and drug use in the Oklahoma suburb, much of which Clark participated in as well as documenting. Clark's first hardcover edition of this work, dated 1971 (the year of the softcover original edition) but in reality published by Clark in 1979.

He was more instinctively sure of himself when he was young and actually living what he was photographing, even as his doggedly self-destructive life spiralled out of control.It has been claimed that thanks to Gene Pitney's 1960 song " Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", Tulsa then represented "young love and family values"; [3] Clark's book challenged this with scenes of young people having sex, shooting up drugs, and playing with guns. His recent photography addresses similar subjects, but with the distance of an observer, and a more prominent formal sensibility. George Eastman House ( Rochester, New York) possesses a complete set of the fifty prints used to make the original book. Clark has also produced films; Kids (1994), based on his experiences with New York City teenagers and their culture of drugs, alcohol, and sex, and Another Day in Paradise (1999). Softcover, 60 pages with additional blank leaf at rear, no specific title page but identified as Lustrum Press and with the photographer's introduction identified as L.