Larry Clark
Tulsa

Larry Clark’s Tulsa is a chronicle of homecoming. It’s 50 black & white photographs, taken over a nine-year period, document Clark’s journeys back to his birthplace. However, as the brief introductory text makes plain, Clark’s return is not to a particular geographic site, but rather to the drug culture of his youth. Tulsa has lost none of its visceral impact in the fourty years since it was first published. Clark’s use of an accidental, ‘snapshot’ aesthetic to capture this world of drugs, guns, brutality, and death eliminates any mediation between the viewer and the images, demanding a direct emotional response.

Originally published in paperback by Lustrum Press in 1971, Tulsa was republished in a hardcover edition by Clark in 1982, then to have been a limited edition of 400. 157 books were lost, damaged or dispersed, leaving 243 books that comprised Westreich’s reissue in 1990.

The limited edition of 400 is signed and numbered and includes an 8 x 10 in. photograph.