Tulsa

Really beautiful portrait of decaying lives. I sticks to your head and heart. Really honest photography.

I knew David Roper and Bobby Dean Morris in the early 70’s. I didn’t know about them shooting up. I wonder if they are still alive. David was a very handsome man. I didn’t know much about him except he hung out with other people I knew. Bobby Dean was always nice around me. I never saw the wilder side of him. He had some beautiful Harleys, a three wheeler and beautiful old cars he had redone. We use to ride around on his three wheeler Harley. I wish the photographer would have put the names with the other photos. I only knew two of them.

A very disturbing series of photographs that tells an interesting story of depraved behavior. I enjoyed the selection of photos that I saw at the Denver art museum so I ordered the whole book. I thought I knew what I was in for but some of the photos are still hard for me to look at. While there are a lot of photos that are just plain creepy there are some that are also just plain interesting and even clever. I'm glad I bought it, but I sure don't leaf through it everyday.

I love Larry Clark's work, as a photographer and a filmmaker. His work captures that raw, real sexuality. His work is both beautiful and obscene, it can be polarizing, but thought provoking.

I’m not much of a student of photography, but I found the images in this book extremely moving, almost hurtful and definitely sad. I have a few other books of late 20th century photos, and none seem to have the power that this slim volume does.

Great

Slightly disappointed. Been wanting this book for yearrrs, but I'm left feeling meh. Probably because for some reason I was expecting the book to be bigger and more photos to be in it.

Very good!

Larry Clark ficou famoso no mundo por seus filmes ficcionais sobre o universo junkie dos jovens, principalmente Kids (que fala sobre a AIDS). Mas antes de tornar-se cineasta, foi um fotógrafo influente que retratava de maneira crua, mas poética, o mesmo universo de seus filmes. Em Tulsa, ele mostra um grupo de jovens do qual ele fazia parte da cidade que dá nome ao livro Tulsa, e que utilizavam diversas drogas (principalmente heroína). Larry mostra o uso da droga, suas consequências, o estilo de vida desses jovens e etc. É um livro muito relevante na história da fotografia documental e influenciou fotógrafos de sua época e muitos que vieram depois pela sua crônica e estética visual única e inovadora para a época. A edição é precisa e chocou o mercado editorial na época de seu lançamento. A impressão do livro é muito boa, o único adendo fica para o material da capa, que é bastante sensível ao toque (toda vez que você segura o livro, fica a marca da sua mão nele...o que, convenhamos, não é nada demais perto dos outros inúmeros atributos do livro).

初版(Original)が'71年、ほぼお蔵入り(絶版、Collector's Itemに)、、そして時代が彼(Larry Clak)を呼んだ。このUS出版('00)の前、'96年に日本の某ギャラリー(主権者)が自主的に復刻刊行しています。限定1000部。自分はこの日本語版"Tulsa"(+ Teenage Lust)を購入しました(本家US版も購入)。勿論、Larry Clakサイドと契約を交わした正規品です。最初のページに彼の文面があります。『俺は1943年オクラホマのタルサで生まれた。16でアンフェタミンを初めて打って、3年間、仲間と打ちまくった。そしてある日、街を出た。でもそのうちに、またタルサに舞い戻って来てしまった。一度ハリが刺さると決して抜けないってことさ。』この写真集"Tulsa"の全てが集約されています。ドラッグ、セックス、妊娠、暴走、自己破壊、死、現実を直視してる真実がここにあります。余談になりますが、"Tulsa"の様に日本で出版されてる現実があります。日本もまだまだ捨てたものではないと嬉しく思います。さらに過去、Bruce Weberの"The Andy Book ('87)"、"Bruce Weber ('91)"などは、First Edition(のみ)から完全なるJapan企画、本家America(US)には逆輸入？という形でした。今日、更にの飛躍を期待したいところです。

現在、『キッズ』や『ブリー』など映画監督としての活動も目立つ写真家ラリークラークの71年の処女作がこの『タルサ』である。彼の地元オクラハマのタルサで暮らす友人達（ジャンキーや売春婦）を被写体にしている。ラリーは父親との確執や争いの耐えない荒れた家庭環境に育ち、思春期以前にドラッグに染まった少年時代を過ごした。そんなラリーにとって生きるとはどういうことなのだろうか。ラリークラークは、作品から自分の感情を排除しているようにも見える。だからこそ誠実でリアルな印象を受ける。この写真集は誠実で純粋な凶器である。

Great photobook

Excellent book. Excellent service.