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THE TULSA READER  1971 / 2010 - PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY CLARK

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THE TULSA READER  1971 / 2010 - BY CHELSEA SPENGEMANN - PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY CLARK

Softcover, 

21.5 x 28 cm

Language: English

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The Tulsa Reader 1971-2010 is part research project and part artists’ book. The work compiles photocopied reproductions of the extensive material–interviews, articles, press releases, gallery memos, letters to the editors—surrounding Larry Clark’s controversial photo series, Tulsa, first exhibited and concurrently published as the iconic artist book in 1971. The exhibition and the book document 8 years that Clark spent in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was hugely contentious for its explicit and unabashed depiction of American youth and drug culture. The hundreds of write-ups and other material gathered in the reader act as a record of Tulsa’s extended life and impact, but also form a collage work in its own right. The repetition of images from the series, most often the well-known photo of a youth seated shirtless and cross-legged with a pistol in hand lends the work a compulsive feel suited to the degraded, addictive work it describes.

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