Tulsa

When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark’s groundbreaking book Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the country. His graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in Oklahoma youth culture won critical acclaim for exposing the myth that middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960s. The raw, haunting images taken in 1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture gradually submerged in self-destruction and are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared. Larry Clark is one of the most important photographers of the last half century. He directed the films Ken Park, Bully, Kids and Another Day in Paradise and is the author of Teenage Lust.