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Larry Clark: Tulsa (First Hardbound Edition), Special Limited Edition of 400 (with Vintage Gelatin Silver Print) [SIGNED]

Publisher: New York: Larry Clark (self-published), in association with Rapoport Printing, 1983
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine / Near Fine
Item #: 113521

$4,500.00

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Specifics

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item.

First edition thus (hardbound), first printing. Limited edition of the 1983 hardbound edition of the book, signed and numbered by Clark on the title page (from an edition of 400, this being #82; edition actually ends at #243, noted by Clark on several early numbered copies of the edition).

Incudes an original gelatin silver print of "Death is more perfect than life." [Billy Mann: Dead 1970] (cover image of the book. Paper size 10 x 8 inches; image size 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches). The print is signed and numbered on verso, enclosed in the original envelope for the print (with the same limitation number). Hardbound . Black cloth-covered boards, with photographically-illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Larry Clark. 64 pp., with black-and-white plates throughout. 12-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches. Scarce.

[Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).]

Condition

Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (slight wear to the extremities, else Fine). The print has about a 1-inch crescent-shaped crease near the subject's head, visible only in raking light, otherwise Fine.

Description

An exerpt from the text by David Levi Strauss (The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century): "In Tulsa, Clark first eliminated one of the rhetorical mainstays of documentary photography: the distance of the 'objective' observer from his or her subjects. The initial shock of Tulsa was that it was photographed from inside the story, and this changed everything... Tulsa, which was Larry Clark's first book, was published by Ralph Gibson's Lustrum Press, and the book was really a collaboration between Clark and Gibson."