SIGNED; Larry Clark - Tulsa (VINTAGE BOOK FROM 1979, VERY FRESH COPY) - 1979

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Signed by the artist.
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SCARCE VINTAGE EDITION FROM THE 70's -
in the book the year 1971 is mentioned, the year of the first paperback, but the hardcover edition came out 8 years later.

WITH THE VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

BOOK AND DUSTJACKET IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

IN THIS WONDERFUL FRESH CONDITION EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND.

Showing a gritty collection of black and white images all taken in Clark's hometown with most revolving around intravenous drug users there.

"i was born in tulsa oklahoma in 1943. when i was sixteen i started shooting amphetamine. i shot with my friends everyday for three years and then left town but i've gone back through the years. once the needle goes in it never comes out."
- L.C.-

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Larry Clark, New York (self-published). 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing.

Hardcover with photo illustrated dustjacket. 235 x 315 mm. 64 pages. Photos: Larry Clark. Typography by Dean Bornstein. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket very fresh and highly impressive, complete with no missing parts; minimal edge wear. Overall very fine, much more better than usual condition.

Photobook classic by Larry Clark in the vintage edition from 1979 (!), the first in hardcover (originally published by Lustrum Press, New York, in 1971, only in paperback) - bodly signed by the artist.

In this brilliant fresh condition extremely hard to find - COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

This edition was bound up by and released by Larry Clark.
A gritty collection of black and white images all taken in Larry Clark`s hometown with most revolving around intravenous drug users there.

"Larry Clark, born in Tulsa, worked in his family's commercial photographic portrait business before studying photography with Walter Sheffer at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1961 to 1963. He served in the military during the Vietnam War and has been a freelance photographer based in New York since 1966. During the 1960s, Clark documented the culture of drug use and illicit activity of his friends in Tulsa, and his photographs from those years were published as Tulsa (1971). Considered shocking for its graphic portrayal of the intimate details of its subjects' risky lives, the book launched Clark's career. After Tulsa, he produced Teenage Lust (1983), a series of photographs depicting adolescent sexuality, Larry Clark (1992), and The Perfect Childhood (1993). His work has been included in group and solo exhibitions since the early 1970s, and he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photographers' Fellowship in 1973 and a Creative Arts Public Service photographers' grant in 1980. 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).
Larry Clark's photographs in Tulsa are unflinching portrayals of difficult and often unsightly circumstances viewed through a participant's eyes. 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. His recent photography addresses similar subjects, but with the distance of an observer, and a more prominent formal sensibility."
- Lisa Hostetler, ICP (International Center for Photography), New York City -