Tulsa.

CLARK, Larry.

Item Number: 1933

New York: Printed Matter, Rapoport Printing, 1971.

First edition, signed limited edition, number 6 of 100. Signed by Larry Clark. Folio, black leather stamped in silver titles to the spine. In fine condition.

Tulsa was published in by Lustrum Press in 1971 as a limited paperback, eight years after he moved to New York City to freelance and was drafted in the Vietnam War. His experiences during this time culminated in this photo documentary which illustrates his young friends' drug use in black and white. These grunge images were taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971, and they movingly chronicle a youth culture overwhelmed with self-destruction. The haunting nature of the images is achieved also through Larry Clark's techniques: "I do a lot of burning and dodging when making a print and then use bleach. There's not a straight print in the TULSA book. When I'm photographing I always try to shoot against the light (refers to the cover image from Tulsa entitled 'Dead,1970') the film can't handle this and everything gets burned up, since I'm exposing for the shadows" (Clark, 1977). Clark's technique and subjects render what The New York Times has called a "[s]taggering, poignant, raw, compassionate, and utterly honest . . . Tulsa is a major work, almost too good . . . to be true. . . . It is an intense, visceral, wrenching statement."