‘Still shocking today': Larry Clark's addiction images
Larry Clark: 'I've always been interested in small groups of marginalised people who no one would know about otherwise'
'I photographed my friends over a 10-year period, in this secret world, which nobody else could have come in and done. You see us from the time we were teenagers up until our 20s. And how we changed'
'These images exposed the previously unseen lives of suburban American teenagers, living a transgressive, outlaw lifestyle: hanging out in crash pads, committing burglaries and armed robberies to score dope. A small number of these photographs would come to form Tulsa. These more intimate photos help to fill in other aspects of the story'
'I don't remember exactly where this gathering was, but the memory and feelings in this photo still linger inside of me'
'I took this photo in a diner we would go to often. It was one of the few public places that we would frequent during that time'
'This was at the billiard parlour around the corner from the Circle movie theatre'
'There weren't supposed to be drugs back then. It was supposed to be mom's apple pie and white picket fences. When I started making work, I said: 'Why can't you show everything?''
'Billy having a beer at the courthouse while getting his shoes shined'
'This is a picture of Billy and his baby, Shantelle. She still texts me whenever someone from the old gang dies, or if they get together to celebrate. She's one of the only people from Tulsa that I still hear from regularly'
'Fifty years after Tulsa was published, I returned to my archive of vintage prints. I wanted to craft a powerful vision of my previously unseen work from the same period: 1962-1971'
'What came out of this is the new book, Return. In many ways the photos are as shocking today as they have ever been, even in a moment in which opioid addiction is prevalent'
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