"Originally published in 1971, Larry Clark’s debut photobook memorialized the ecstasy and ruin of drug addiction from the POV of a participant witness—an “anthropology of the near” which made history as a pictorial archive of 1960s counterculture. Half a century later, the aura that surrounded its creation continues in the dissemination of the book—a cult, collectible item passed hand-to-hand among photographers and artists."