I have picked a few books to do some write ups on and thought I would start with one from probably the most "Accidental" photographers of our time Larry Clark.
In his photo book Tulsa Larry Clark shows a side of the world that we only could imagine, and still never understand. He spent 3 years of shooting up with his friends when he was 16, and managed to get away from it all. But from the last line in the cover blurb "Once the needle goes in it never comes out" we all wonder if "the feel of the steel" ever left him.
He was close to a life and people that, unbeknownst to them, were being photographed and recorded in a period of life that could be best under-described as "Turbulent". He is close to people and actions that we could never see in our circle of friends. There is an inherent danger in every photo, as well as a sadness that ebbs and flows from image to image.
It's such a sad book, with it's photo of a soon to be mother injecting Amphetamines and later seeing said baby in a coffin just clobbers you in the head with reality. The picture of a doe eyed boy acting as tourniquet for another shooter. The picture of a man laying in bed with a woman crying next to him after he was accidentally shot in the thigh. These images haunt and grow in your mind and you backwards and forwards through them asking yourself if they are real or not.
Please take a look at Larry Clark's work and take a look at his book TULSA available through Amazon or you local book store.
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