[Book Maquette for Teenage Lust]

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.