But the subsequent publication of the book and his reputation as a groundbreaker did nothing to appease his demons. I shot with my friends every day for three years and then left town, but I've gone back through the years.

Because of his subsequent heroin addiction, it took Clark 10 years to complete Teenage Lust, which was finally published in 1983. Kids was followed by such works as Another Day in Paradise (1998), Bully (2001), Ken Park (2003), WASSUP ROCKERS (2005), and the autobiographical installation and publication punk Picasso (2003).In his collages and videos of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he broadened this investigation into revealing the ways that mass media alternately creates, rejects, and eroticizes young people. Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, New York: Bulfinch Press in association with the International Center of Photography, 1999, pp. Its publication in 1971 "caused a sensation within the photographic community", leading to a new interest in autobiographical work. Its graphic depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of Oklahoma were acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960s. An autobiography of his teenage years, it comprised more raw images of drug use and adolescent sex, as well as portraits of young hustlers working Times Square in New York, with a little of the edginess leavened by family snapshots and portraits.

Softcover, 60 pages with additional blank leaf at rear, no specific title page but identified as Lustrum Press and with the photographer's introduction identified as L.Tulsa demonstrated a new style of photography that was subjective, alienated and completely detached from any social agenda. But Clark went there first, and Tulsa remains a template for all that followed, a blurring of the lines between voyeurism and intimate reportage, between honesty and exploitation. Quarto, unpaginated; VG/VG-; spine black, with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; wear to crown and tail of jacket spine; small closed tear and crease to upper edge of jacket back; signed flat by Clark at title page; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; pages clean; shelved Case 11.

when I'm photographing I always try to shoot against the light (refers to the cover image from Tulsa entitled 'Dead, 1970'). In 2010, a retrospective of Clark's work, Kiss the past hello, was held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, among others. A classic Freudian drama, then, played out in extremis by a lost boy who, for a long time, was intent on self-obliteration. Their first hand intensity, recollects the work of Danny Lyon and Bruce Davidson, but Clark's raw voyeurism and insistent exposure of detail results in a somberness that differentiates his work from that of others in the early 1970s. But they still disturb viewers today because of that – and because they depict suburban America; this wasn't a blighted inner-city picture, but the kids next door. His work is included in important museum and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.