Larry sultan

Larry Sultan, Chandler Boulevard, 1999. Chromogenic print, sheet: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm) Image: 38 1/4 × 48 in. (97.2 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press 2003.462

All the World's a Stage in the Oeuvre of the Late Photographer

Larry Sultan’s photography is imbued with both the traditions of documentary and staging, and captures suburban life often in his hometown in the San Fernando Valley. _Pictures From Home_ is a project that spanned a decade featuring his mother and father as primary subjects.

Sultan’s 80s portraits of his parents are both artful and authentic

The very first time I met Larry’s parents was inside a South Lake Tahoe casino. It must have been about 2:30 in the afternoon when Larry and I walked in. We had driven from Greenbrae to spend the weekend in their Tahoe Keys condo. Irv stood near the slot machines dressed in a “full Cleveland”: […]

Larry Sultan, Amber, AKA Little Sinderella, 1999. Chromogenic print, sheet: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm) Image: 38 1/4 × 48 in. (97.2 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press 2003.454

Chris Wiley writes about Sultan’s photography book “Pictures from Home,” which includes interviews with his parents that undercut the narrative of his father as a fallen Horatio Alger type.

The cast and crew have gathered in the front yard of a ranch-style house, a few blocks from where I went to high school in the San Fernando Valley. Women in six-inch heels sink into the lawn; men push around camera equipment, anxious about losing the light. They are preparing to film a scene in […]