April 12, 2024
Teenage Lust 1987: an autobiography by Larry Clark
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2nd edition with 10 more plates than the first 1983 edition. Slight discoloration due to its age, very minimal edge wear and a couple light scuffs on the back.The lurid title sounds deceptive, but there's really not all that much lust in "Teenage Lust," Larry Clark's second classic book of photography. For the most part, it continues in the autobiographical vein of "Tulsa," his first work. Many people from "Tulsa," including the two principal characters, also appear here. Some of the photographs here were clearly taken at the same time as some of those from "Tulsa." For instance, the picture of Roper drawing and aiming a gun across a room is reprised, except now his hand is lowered.But "Teenage Lust" is a much more free-form kind of work than "Tulsa." It lacks the tight thematic focus of its predecessor, the grainy aesthetic, and the mystique. On the contrary, here Clark seems determined to expose the whole backstory behind the images in both books. There are many more captions, as well as excerpts of newspaper articles about Clark's run-ins with the law, and the book ends with a very long, ranting stream-of-consciousness text telling the story of Clark's entire life. This actually somewhat lessens the dramatic impact of the work, because it gets in the way of the images, keeping them from telling the whole story.As the book goes
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