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 “A sort of umbilical cord links the body of the
photographed thing to my gaze: light, though
impalpable, is here a carnal medium, a skin I
share with anyone who has been photographed.”
- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

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 “In front of [a] photograph of my moth-
er as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shud-
der … over a catastrophe which has already occurred...”

“...Whether or not the subject is already

dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.”
- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

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 Teenage Lust
Larry Clark
SIGNED by Larry Clark.
Self-published, 1987. Second Edition. Quarto. Soft-
cover stiff illustrated wrappers.
In Clark’s second book, originally self-published in
1983, he loosely tells the story of his life through
early snapshots, newspaper articles about his run-ins
with the law, autobiographical written passages, cap-
tions, and portraits of teenage buys hustling in Times
Square. Like Tulsa and the rest of Clark’s work,
Teenage Lust spawned much controversy. He has said
of this time that he “merged all the lives together and
became one of the characters from Tulsa. I started
acting out the lives of my subjects. The next thing
I know I’m shooting and stabbing people.” Teenage
Lust is also about innocence and its loss, subjects that
would become to central to Clark’s work in subse-
quent years, perhaps most successfully his first feature
film, Kids.
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Tulsa
Larry Clark
SIGNED and NUMBERED by Larry Clark.
Self Published, 1979. Limited Edition of 400 cop-
ies numbered and signed by Larry Clark, this being
No. 3, first hardcover edition (True First published
by Lustrum Press, 1972 in softcover). Quarto 12.25
x 9.5”. Hardbound in black cloth with illustrated
jacket.
“Unlike The Bikeriders, which found a mainstream
publisher, Tulsa was brought out by arguably the
best of the small American photobook publishers of
the 1970’s, Ralph Gibson’s Lustrum Press. Clark’s
photo-diary, containing gritty, graphic depictions of
local teenagers shooting up, playing with guns and
having sex, was an instant succés de scandale. Its suc-
cess amongst the photographic community was due
largely to its perceived authenticity. Clark lived with
these kids, did drugs with them, slept with them and
included himself in the photographs. It was a true
photo-diary, turning the documentary mode around.
Instead of it being a view from the outside – from
above – here was an authentic view from the inside.
Following the publication of Tulsa, Clark even went
to jail for a time, which served to enhance the book’s
street cred.” --Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A
History, Vol. I, p. 260.
Kiss the Past Hello
Larry Clark
SIGNED by Larry Clark.
Luhring Augustine Gallery, NY, and Simon Lee
Gallery, London, 2010. First Edition. Quarto 12 x
9.75”. Softcover book with text booklet and poster
contained in illustrated box.
From the publisher: “This book is a selection of im-
ages from Clark’s oeuvre, including images from his
seminal publications Tulsa and Teenage Lust, as well
as his books The Perfect Childhood, Punk Picasso, and
recent photographs from Los Angeles 2003-2006
Vol. 1. In addition, the publication features images
by his mother, Frances Clark, as well as never before
seen outtakes and new work.”
Larry Clark
Larry Clark
SIGNED by Larry Clark.
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, 1999. First
edition of 6000 copies. Large Quarto. Black em-
bossed leatherette covered boards with a color pasted
illustration on the rear panel.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition entitled
“Larry Clark” held at the Groninger Museum in
1999, this book features hundreds of video stills from
interviews with four troubled young men: one de-
scribes murdering his abusive father, another tells of
his affair with an older woman. Images from footage
of the Lyle and Erik Menendez murder trial in 1989
are included. Though the stories are only alluded to,
the raw emotion and harrowing experiences behind
their angry, confused faces is unforgettable.
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 The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin
Aperture, New York, 1986. First Edition, First Print-
ing. Oblong Octavo. Hardbound in blue cloth with
illustrated dust jacket.
“[Goldin] examines the limitations of sanctioned
gender roles and the conflicting, often violent nature
of sexual relationships amongst her friends and lov-
ers. Her view is profoundly pessimistic, yet she also
admits the illogical pull of the biological impera-
tive in her introduction to the book: ‘I often fear
that men and women are irrevocably strangers to
each other, irreconcilably unsuited, almost as if they
were from different planets. But there is an intense
need for coupling in spite of it all. Even if relation-
ships are destructive people cling together.’ Goldin
surefootedly negotiates that perilous tightrope where
snapshot elides into documentary, confession into
art, the mundane into poetry. The Ballad of Sexual
Dependency, like most great photobooks, is an honest,
troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to
our times.” Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A His-
tory Vol. II, p. 39
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A Double Life
Nan Goldin
Includes seven loose black-and-white photographs
by Nan Goldin, some of her earliest work: one 11 x
14, one 8 x 10, and five 3 ½ x 5 images.
Scalo, New York, 1994. First edition. Large Quarto.
Illustrated throughout with color and black-and-
white photographs. Printed burgundy boards. Review
copy with extra iterations of some pages bound in.
Includes a one-page photocopied press release from
the office of noted literary agent Ira Silverberg (sec-
ond page is missing).
A Double Life presents gritty, erotic, and moving im-
ages by Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, who have
both explored the expressive and narrative possibili-
ties of the medium. Their work is cunningly pre-
sented in “free-form” sequences, whether juxtaposed
“side-by-side” or presented in discrete full sections
succeeding each other. The collection’s cumulative
effect is quite affecting and powerful. A brilliant col-
laboration, this is a “must-have” title for Nan Goldin
and David Armstrong collectors.
You and I
Ryan McGinley
Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2011. Quar-
to. Hardcover bound in pale blue cloth with title
stamped in silver on cover and on spine. Illustrated
dust jacket. First edition limited to 8,000 copies.
The first retrospective of McGinley’s work ever to be
published, You and I looks back at the first ten years
of this gifted and increasingly popular artist. The
book also includes essays on McGinley’s works from
Sylvia Wolf and Vince Aletti. From the publisher:
“McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of
his friends, a group that forms part of New York’s
Lower East Side youth culture. [His] newest work
signals a departure from the urban youth culture
images for which he is best known; he has been
working in natural settings outside New York City,
creating specific situations for his subjects to lose
themselves in the moment. McGinley embraces
nature as a site of freedom and captures a sense of
buoyancy and release.”
Everyone Knows This is Nowhere
Ryan McGinley
Dashwood Books, New York, 2010. First Edition.
Quarto. Hardbound with illustrated, pliable boards.
In original dust jacket.
A lush collection of nude portraits that are both
intimate and expressive. McGinley takes the young
people out of the skateboard and graffiti subcultures
and literally strips them of their cultural trappings,
revealing their bodies: frail, tattooed, young, and
beautiful. His subjects are willing collaborators; they
perform for the camera and expose themselves with
a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contempo-
rary. The results form a portrait of a generation that
is savvy about visual culture and acutely aware of
identity.
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 Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley
Includes 2 loose archival color inkjet prints. Dou-
bly INSCRIBED by Ryan McGinley to David
Armstrong.
Flasher Factory, New York, 2004. Octavo. Softcover.
Printed light blue wrappers. First Edition. Introduc-
tion by Bob Nickas.
Published by Flasher Factory in 2004 on the occa-
sion of an exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art
Center of McGinley’s recent work, which signaled a
departure from the photographer’s previous images.
While he had been best known for capturing inti-
mate and everyday images of his extended family and
friends—skateboarders, graffiti artists, and lovers—in
and around the Lower East Side, McGinley began
working almost exclusively in natural settings outside
of New York City over the nine months prior to the
exhibition. For the first time, McGinley had set up
situations specifically to be photographed, but he also
created the conditions in which his subjects could
lose themselves in the moment.
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Teenage
Joseph Szabo
Includes limited edition photographic print
SIGNED and NUMBERED by Joseph Szabo.
Grebull Press, Los Angeles, 2003. First Edition,
Limited Editition of 50 copies. Number 49 of 50.
Square Quarto. Hardbound with pictorial wrappers.
No dust jacket, as issued. Comes in original, special
edition box.
Photographer Joseph Szabo’s subject is adolescence;
his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at
Malverne High School, caught between puberty and
the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s,
the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable
evocation of that period, and yet there is something
timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo’s
portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are pain-
fully self-conscious, others are self-assured beyond
their years -- all have allowed Szabo the unique trust
of seeing them as they are. The fine line between
intimacy and exploitation that other photographers
approach is not in evidence here -- Szabo has no
agenda beyond the recording of these moments of
extreme loveliness, bravado and confusion. Teenage is
a poignant record of Szabo’s work spanning two de-
cades, a timeless evocation of almost-adulthood. This
is what only the camera can catch: reality complete
with nuances, gestures and life.
The Age of Adolescence
Joseph Sterling
Includes a limited edition photographic print
SIGNED and NUMBERED by Joseph Sterling.
Greybull Press, U.S., 2005. Quarto. Black boards
with black & white photo illustration set-in to front,
silver type to spine and back boards. Comes in origi-
nal, special edition box with silver type to spine. A
special limited first edition of 50 copies.
From the publisher: “From 1959 to 1964 (arguably
the adolescence of America), Joseph Sterling pho-
tographed teenagers, mostly in and around Chicago,
hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. As
Sterling himself defined it, ‘the world of the adoles-
cent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable
of freeing itself…It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what
it is allowed to engulf.’ During that bridging period
between postwar peace and prewar upheaval, Sterling
was a student himself at Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of
Design in Chicago, where he studied photography
under Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick
Sommer with classmates Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Ray
Metzker… Along with an essay by David Travis, Cu-
rator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago
since 1972, this volume collects more than 100 im-
ages of a time that’s both historically important and
emotionally resonant, one in which, as Sterling says,
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Cover ........................................................................................................... Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Ryan McGinley

1, 3, 4 ............................................................................................................ Teenage - Joseph Szabo
5, 6 ............................................................................................................... A Ballad of Sexual Dependency - Nan Goldin
7, 8 ............................................................................................................... Teenage Lust - Larry Clark
9 ................................................................................................................... Tulsa - Larry Clark
10 ................................................................................................................. Teenage Lust - Larry Clark
11 ................................................................................................................. Tulsa - Larry Clark
12 ................................................................................................................. Ryan McGinley - Ryan McGinley
14 ................................................................................................................. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Ryan McGinley
15 ................................................................................................................. The Age of Adolescence - Joseph Sterling
16 ................................................................................................................. A Ballad of Sexual Dependency - Nan Goldin
17 ................................................................................................................. Kiss The Past Hello - Larry Clark
18 ................................................................................................................. Teenage - Joseph Szabo
19 ................................................................................................................. Everybody Knows... - Ryan McGinley & A Double Life - Nan Goldin
20 ................................................................................................................. The Age of Adolescence - Joseph Sterling
21 ................................................................................................................. A Double Life - Nan Goldin
22 ................................................................................................................. You and I - Ryan McGinley
23, 24 ........................................................................................................... Larry Clark - Larry Clark
34 ................................................................................................................. You and I - Ryan McGinley

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