Tulsa. An Autobiography New York: Larry Clark, [1979].
First hardcover edition.
Quarto. Unpaginated, with photographic illustrations throughout. Black publisher's cloth, spine lettered in silver, with original dust jacket. Minor rubbing to cloth; rubbing and edge-wear to jacket, with chip to head of spine and two inch closed tear to bottom edge of front cover. 1990 Los Angeles Times article on Clark laid in. A very good copy, signed by the photographer on title page.
Signed first hardcover edition (second edition overall) of this groundbreaking photobook, originally published in 1971.
Larry Clark (b. 1943) is a prominent American photographer and film director, best known for directing the movie Kids and his photography books Tulsa and Teenage Lust. His works are known for their frank depiction of teenage sex, violence, and drug use. Tulsa, his first book, depicted "a part of the American psyche that had been written and sung but never made into a book of images before" (Roth), making it "one of the most talked about and important books of the decade" (Parr & Badger).
Parr & Badger I, p. 260; Roth pp. 208-9.
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8528
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875