Because of his subsequent heroin addiction, it took Clark 10 years to complete Teenage Lust, which was finally published in 1983. I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1943," says Larry Clark in the introduction to Tulsa, his now iconic photobook from 1971. Clark learned photography early (his mother was a photographer of babies) and there’s a great deal of darkroom technique behind these pictures. The Groninger Museum ( Groningen) bought the series of prints in 1998 and exhibited them in January–April 2005. Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, New York: Bulfinch Press in association with the International Center of Photography, 1999, pp.

His work is included in important museum and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. Criticism of Tulsa has not been limited to a visceral rejection of images of drugtaking, casual sex, and gunplay; Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus [of Tulsa and Clark's 1983 book Teenage Lust] on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else — whether photographed from the 'inside' or not — raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work. When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1, authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work. Clark has said that he "didn't take these photographs as a voyeur, but as a participant in the phenomenon", [4] and commentary on the book has emphasized how Clark did not just live with the teenagers portrayed but "did drugs with them, slept with them, and included himself in the photographs"; this conferred an authenticity on the work, which brought it great praise.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. 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.

I shot with my friends every day for three years and then left town, but I've gone back through the years. Next week, Foam in Amsterdam pairs images from Tulsa with photographs from Clark's follow-up, Teenage Lust, for a show that reminds us just how unsettling Clark's early vision of the teenage "outlaw life" was, and remains.

Cover image from Tulsa made into a 23" x 18" poster from an exhibition at the Robert Freidus Gallery. This exhibition comes with a parental warning (and controlled access) but it also comes with high praise. 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. Seymour paid for Tulsa to be printed, together with his own book, A Loud Song (1971), which Lustrum also issued.

After Tulsa, he produced Teenage Lust (1983), a series of photographs depicting adolescent sexuality, Larry Clark (1992), and The Perfect Childhood (1993). Quarto; Unpaginated; VG/VG;Black spine with white lettering; Jacket protected by mylar cover; Jacket has minimal shelf wear; Black cloth boards have slight wear at the upper edge; Binding tight; Interior clean. An autobiography of his teenage years, it comprised more raw images of drug use and adolescent sex, as well as portraits of young hustlers working Times Square in New York, with a little of the edginess leavened by family snapshots and portraits. And in case you’re wondering, Clark had such intimate access to his subjects because he was shooting up the drugs right along with them.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. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of Oklahoma were acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960s.