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[Book Maquette for Tulsa]

Larry Clark American
1971
Not on view
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
In 1966, after military service in Vietnam, Larry Clark moved to New York but periodically returned to his childhood home in Oklahoma to photograph his high school friends. His first book, Tulsa, explores a community of feral adolescents and young adults who have sex, wield handguns, and shoot methamphetamine. Clark explained that he knew "in some way that I was photographing things that were not supposed to be photographed. Forbidden things."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Book Maquette for Tulsa]
  • Artist: Larry Clark (American, born 1943)
  • Date: 1971
  • Medium: Fifty-nine gelatin silver prints
  • Dimensions: Closed: 12 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 3/4 in. (30.8 × 23.5 × 1.9 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
  • Object Number: L.2021.1.2
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs