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Considered shocking for its graphic portrayal of the intimate details of its subjects' risky lives, the book launched Clark's career. After Tulsa, he produced Teenage Lust (1983), a series of photographs depicting adolescent sexuality, Larry Clark (1992), and The Perfect Childhood (1993).
Teenage Lust, Larry Clark (United States, born 1943), United States, 1981, Photographs, (83) gelatin-silver prints.
“Teenage Lust” is a standout track from The Jesus and Mary Chain’s album ‘Honey’s Dead’ released in 1992. The album itself is a departure from their earlier noise-pop sound, incorporating elements of shoegaze and alternative rock.
His follow-up was Teenage Lust (1983), an "autobiography" of his teen past through the images of others. It included his family photos, more teenage drug use, graphic pictures of teenage sexual activity, and young male hustlers in Times Square , New York City.
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.
Although his written account reads as a seemingly endless stream of drug use, sexual encounters, violence, and run-ins with the police, many of the book’s photographs focused longingly on the innocence and bravado of youths half his thirty years, and evoked the thrill of discovery and the sensuality of flesh.
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American photographers of his generation, Larry Clark is known for both his raw and contentious photographs and his controversial films focusing on teen sexuality, violence, and drug use.
