Tulsa

CLARK, Larry

ISBN 10: 0802116779 / ISBN 13: 9780802116772

Published by Grove Press, New York, 2000

About this Item

First edition thus. Hardcover. A gritty collection of black and white images all taken in Clark's hometown with most revolving around intravenous drug users there. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still largely in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open to verify printing.

Seller Inventory # 197754

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tulsa
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802116779
• ISBN 13: 9780802116772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. 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. The raw, haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction -- and are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared. Originally published in a limited paperback version and republished in 1983 as a limited hardcover edition commissioned by the author, rare-book dealers sell copies of this book for more than a thousand dollars. Now in both hardcover and paperback editions from Grove Press, this seminal work of photographic art and social history is once again available to the general public.

Review

"Staggering, poignant, raw, compassionate, and utterly honest . . . Tulsa is a major work, almost too good . . . to be true. . . . It is an intense, visceral, wrenching statement."