Clark, Larry: Teenage Lust (SIGNED)

1983

First Edition

Larry Clark. 1983, First edition. Quarto. Stiff pictorial wraps. This pristine volume has been signed in black ink on the lower title page by photographer Larry Clark. Teenage Lust, an “auto biography” of his teen past through the images of others. It included his family photos, teenage drug use, graphic pictures of teenage sexual activity, and young male hustlers in Times Square and New York City. A superb copy of this landmark publication. RARE SIGNED first edition of this now classic Larry Clark title. Extremely scarce.

"Larry Clark’s troubled life and the fractured lives of his friends provide the backdrop for the imagery in Teenage Lust. The photographs range from Clark’s self-portraits as a child growing up in suburban Tulsa through shots of the male street hustlers whom he met in Times Square in New York City in the early 1980s. Teenage Lust roughly chronicles the life of Clark and his close circle over the expanse of more than thirty years, documenting a segment of society that chose to opt out of the trappings and disappointments of the typical “American Dream.” -ClampArt.