Danielle Jackson

Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and independent curator. This project was developed during her time as a 2024 Getty MuseumGuest Scholar. She is the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery, screening room,and educational space. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department forthe photo agency, Magnum Photos. Her essays on art and politics have appeared in Artnet and Cultured Magazine. She teaches courses on visual culture and policy at Stanford in New York and New York University.

Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971) has been considered one of the seminal photo essays in the history of photography. As Clark made his searing pictures of teenage addicts in the Cherokee Heights and Kendall-Whittier neighborhoods, Model Cities – a massive federal anti-poverty initiative under President Lyndon Johnson–was in progress mere blocks away. Tulsa – and Clark’s subsequent books Teenage Lust (1983) and Return (2024) – can help us understand how local, neighborhood-based economic policies have fallen short in addressing the city’s larger political economy, which, by the date of Tulsa’s publication, began to exclude working class people of all races.