Larry Clark Signed Book by Groninger Museum, 1999
Groninger Museum, 1999. First edition. Out of print title. Hardcover. Unpaginated, circa 150 pages. 29,5 x 24,5 cm. Colour photographs. Limited edition of 6000. Used.
A black book to show a dark story. Published in conjunction Groninger Museum, this conceptual book has more than 100 photographs of video stills about footage of the Menendez brothers’ murder trial in 1989, accused of one of the most mediatic, notorious, ugliest and discussed American crimes.
Lyle and Erik shot their rich parents to death in the family’s Beverly Hills home. They then drove up to Mulholland Drive, where they dumped their guns before continuing to a local movie theater to buy tickets as an alibi.
The Menendez murders became a national sensation when the television broadcast the trial in 1993. Rich, charismatic and wickedly handsome Menendez Brothers seemed to have it all but they wanted more, their heritage. Among thesse and other images the book examines adolescence and the dark undercurrents of violence and lust, providing a frank depiction of a period that is often idealized.
And this first edition was limited to 6000 copies!
A breathtaking book, debossed black ‘leatherette’ covered boards with tipped-in color plate on the rear board.
Title: Groninger Museum / SIGNED by Larry Clark
Publisher: Groninger Museum, Netherlands 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover / Initials L.C. embossed on cover
Book Condition: As new with some damage to edge of book, touched up with black marker / see photos
Signed: Signed by Larry Clark
Edition: 1st Edition
Book appraised at USD$300 (Original price tag stick on verso exterior back of the book)
Selling for USD$200.
This copy is hand SIGNED by Larry Clark on title page (lower right / in black ink); limited edition of 6,000 copies; 194pp, quarto: size- 9-¾ x12in; only photos (193) on each page with no text; subject matter: close-up colored/b&w photos taken from a monitor in a LC film; signed on the title page at lower bottom right; embossed black cloth with pasted color illustration on rear panel; published on the occasion of the exhibition entitled “Larry Clark”, held at the Groninger Museum in 1999; signed 1999 in N.Y. City for a fundraiser; only text is on the title page and the colophon; boards & interior in very good condition, except for some damage to exterior edge of book / see photos.
Synopsis:
A chilling new publication from the artist who brought us Tulsa, Teenage Lust, and Kids. Larry Clark once again focuses on the issue of male youth in contemporary culture, this time using selected video clips rather than film or photo- graphs. Clark leads us on a disturbing but seductive text-free journey via the fresh and yet troubled faces of four teenage boys; one young man describes killing his abusive father, while another recounts an affair with an older woman. However, in this book the actual story is not important. It’s the rapid-fire images that matter: no text, no sound, just the lingering images of a moment in time.