Tulsa

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Their first hand intensity, recollects the work of Danny Lyon and Bruce Davidson, but Clark's raw voyeurism and insistent exposure of detail results in a somberness that differentiates his work from that of others in the early 1970s. Its publication in 1971 "caused a sensation within the photographic community", leading to a new interest in autobiographical work. While a teenager Clark developed his photography skills working as an assistant to his mother, a door-to-door baby photographer. After Tulsa, he produced Teenage Lust (1983), a series of photographs depicting adolescent sexuality, Larry Clark (1992), and The Perfect Childhood (1993). 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.

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. In his collages and videos of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he broadened this investigation into revealing the ways that mass media alternately creates, rejects, and eroticizes young people. Clark's crisp, haunting black-and-white photos, staying remarkably true to their original American iteration.Hardcover, very good in near very good slightly rippled jacket with slight scuffing and light wear to edges.

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.

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. Regards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Live 146; The Book of 101 Books Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp208-9; The Photobook A History, I p260; The Open Book pp272-3; 802 photo books from the M + M Aver collection p531.