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LARRY CLARK (1943- )
Tulsa Portfolio.
Complete with 10 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 5
3
/
4
x8
1
/
2
inches
(14.6x21.6 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Clark’s signature, in
ink, on recto, and the edition notation 26/50, in pencil, on verso; each print is matted. Folio-sized
clamshell box, debossed black cloth; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES.
NewYork: Luhring Augustine Gallery, 1968-71; printed 1972
[15,000/25,000]
Acquired by a Private NewYork Collector in the 1980s.
The images in this portfolio feature Clark’s controversial documentation of young drug addicts in
Oklahoma. Clark was born and raised in Tulsa. His mother was an itinerant baby photographer
whom he assisted as a teenager.These personal images depicting the self-destructive activities of his
friends are recognized icons of 1970s counterculture.