[Book Maquette for Teenage Lust]

Larry Clark American
ca. 1983
Not on view
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
The working maquette for Larry Clark’s second book, Teenage Lust, offers an intimate look at how the artist constructed one of his earliest publications. The subjective photographs were exceptionally controversial at the time of the book’s release due to their unflinching exploration of youth culture and sexuality. The publication integrates self-portraits, pictures of Clark’s own childhood in Oklahoma, and portraits of male prostitutes he met in Times Square in the early 1980s.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Book Maquette for Teenage Lust]
  • Artist: Larry Clark (American, born 1943)
  • Date: ca. 1983
  • Medium: Gelatin silver prints
  • Dimensions: Closed: 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm)
    Open: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (29.2 × 47 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.2021.1.3
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs