This book brings together three of Larry Sultans best known series: Pictures from Home, The Valley and Homeland, all mainly made in the San Fernando Valley, California, where the artist grew up. Pictures from Home is a survey of his parents life over the course of a long period; The Valley deals with the Californian pornographic industry which operates out of the suburbs of the region; and Homeland, his late series of landscapes which appear idyllic at first sight but which are fractured by the troubling presence of Mexican day-labourers. In all of his photographs Sultan is dealing with the private, political and social aspects of the american dream a dream he locates somewhere between utopia and dystopia. This publication accompanies an exhibition at the kestnergesellschaft, Hannover. Larry Sultan (19462009) taught photography from 1978 and was a professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts from 1989. He received several National Endowments for the Arts and had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Musée de lElysée, Lausanne, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Co-published with Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover.
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The title comes from the avenue the Sultan family moved to in the San Fernando Valley from Brooklyn in 1949 and the book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of Sultan's photos at the Gallerie Zander, Cologne in August 2010. He died in 2009 and his photographic legacy is in several books, especially these three: 'Evidence' (1977) with fifty-six mono photos; 'Pictures from home' (1992) with ninety colour and twenty mono; 'The Valley' (2004) with ninety colour photos.
This book has fifty photos with eighteen each from 'Home' and the 'Valley' and fourteen from an assignment in 2008 called Homeland. My repeated viewing through the pages confirm that Larry Sultan had something to say. 'Pictures from home' is a visual diary of life with his parents. Of the eighteen photos six show his mum with a partially obscured face, just the sort of thing, I thought, that critics could well pick up on and offer all kinds of deep and penetrating analysis regarding the family dynamic. How about his mum wasn't too keen on having her photo taken anyway! Photographer Mitch Epstein tried the same family format with his 2003 Mitch Epstein: Family Business.
The eighteen from the 'Pictures from the Valley' feature an interesting idea: coverage of the porn industry in San Fernando. Rather than shoot videos in a studio, it seems Valley residents hire out their homes for the two or three days it takes to shoot a typical porn movie (a sort of ramshackle fame for the home owners). The photos are all very tasteful and suggest that, like real movie-making, there is a lot hanging about involved.
The fourteen from 'Homeland' is also an interesting concept because Sultan hired day labourers to stand in the various landscape shots he took of southern California housing developments. The positioning of the men (all from Central America) suggests a Gregory Crewdson feel but without the complex visual storyline Crewdson injects into his shots.
I thought 'Katherine Avenue' a wonderful overview of Sultan's work but I was disappointed that there were only fifty photos (so three stars) and none from his fascinating collaboration with Mike Mandel in their 'Evidence' book. To really make this title complete the publishers should have included largish thumbnails of all of the spreads from Sultan's three books and put them with the existing biographic pages in the back of the book. The title might have become the standard reference on this intriguing photographer.
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This book has fifty photos with eighteen each from 'Home' and the 'Valley' and fourteen from an assignment in 2008 called Homeland. My repeated viewing through the pages confirm that Larry Sultan had something to say. 'Pictures from home' is a visual diary of life with his parents. Of the eighteen photos six show his mum with a partially obscured face, just the sort of thing, I thought, that critics could well pick up on and offer all kinds of deep and penetrating analysis regarding the family dynamic. How about his mum wasn't too keen on having her photo taken anyway! Photographer Mitch Epstein tried the same family format with his 2003 Mitch Epstein: Family Business.
The eighteen from the 'Pictures from the Valley' feature an interesting idea: coverage of the porn industry in San Fernando. Rather than shoot videos in a studio, it seems Valley residents hire out their homes for the two or three days it takes to shoot a typical porn movie (a sort of ramshackle fame for the home owners). The photos are all very tasteful and suggest that, like real movie-making, there is a lot hanging about involved.
The fourteen from 'Homeland' is also an interesting concept because Sultan hired day labourers to stand in the various landscape shots he took of southern California housing developments. The positioning of the men (all from Central America) suggests a Gregory Crewdson feel but without the complex visual storyline Crewdson injects into his shots.
I thought 'Katherine Avenue' a wonderful overview of Sultan's work but I was disappointed that there were only fifty photos (so three stars) and none from his fascinating collaboration with Mike Mandel in their 'Evidence' book. To really make this title complete the publishers should have included largish thumbnails of all of the spreads from Sultan's three books and put them with the existing biographic pages in the back of the book. The title might have become the standard reference on this intriguing photographer.
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The title comes from the avenue the Sultan family moved to in the San Fernando Valley from Brooklyn in 1949 and the book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of Sultan's photos at the Gallerie Zander, Cologne in August 2010. He died in 2009 and his photographic legacy is in several books, especially these three: 'Evidence' (1977) with fifty-six mono photos; 'Pictures from home' (1992) with ninety color and twenty mono and 'The Valley' (2004) with ninety color photos.
This book (unfortunately) only has fifty photos with eighteen each from Home and the Valley and fourteen from an assignment in 2008 called Homeland. My repeated viewing through the pages confirm that Larry Sultan had something to say. 'Pictures from home' is a visual diary of life with his parents. Of the eighteen photos six show his mom with a partially obscured face, just the sort of thing, I thought, that commentators could well pick up on and offer all kinds of deep and penetrating analysis regarding the family dynamic. How about his mom wasn't too keen on having her photo taken anyway! Photographer Mitch Epstein tried the same family format with his 2003 Mitch Epstein: Family Business.
The eighteen from the 'Pictures from the Valley' feature an interesting idea: coverage of the porn industry in San Fernando. Rather than shoot videos in a studio, it seems Valley residents hire out their homes for the two or three days it takes to shoot a typical porn movie (a sort of ramshackle fame for the home owners, I guess). The photos are quite tasteful and suggest that, like real movie-making, there is a lot hanging about involved.
The 'Homeland' fourteen shots are also interesting because Sultan hired day laborers to stand in the various landscape shots he took of southern California housing developments. The positioning of the men (all from Central America) suggests a Gregory Crewdson feel but without the complex visual storyline Crewdson injects into his shots.
I thought 'Katherine Avenue' a wonderful overview of Sultan's work but I was disappointed that there were only fifty photos (making this a rather expensive buy so three stars) and none from his fascinating collaboration with Mike Mandel in their 'Evidence' book. To really make this title complete the publishers should have included largish thumbnails of all of the spreads from Sultan's three books and put them with the existing biographic pages in the back of the book. The title might have become the standard reference on this intriguing photographer.
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This book (unfortunately) only has fifty photos with eighteen each from Home and the Valley and fourteen from an assignment in 2008 called Homeland. My repeated viewing through the pages confirm that Larry Sultan had something to say. 'Pictures from home' is a visual diary of life with his parents. Of the eighteen photos six show his mom with a partially obscured face, just the sort of thing, I thought, that commentators could well pick up on and offer all kinds of deep and penetrating analysis regarding the family dynamic. How about his mom wasn't too keen on having her photo taken anyway! Photographer Mitch Epstein tried the same family format with his 2003 Mitch Epstein: Family Business.
The eighteen from the 'Pictures from the Valley' feature an interesting idea: coverage of the porn industry in San Fernando. Rather than shoot videos in a studio, it seems Valley residents hire out their homes for the two or three days it takes to shoot a typical porn movie (a sort of ramshackle fame for the home owners, I guess). The photos are quite tasteful and suggest that, like real movie-making, there is a lot hanging about involved.
The 'Homeland' fourteen shots are also interesting because Sultan hired day laborers to stand in the various landscape shots he took of southern California housing developments. The positioning of the men (all from Central America) suggests a Gregory Crewdson feel but without the complex visual storyline Crewdson injects into his shots.
I thought 'Katherine Avenue' a wonderful overview of Sultan's work but I was disappointed that there were only fifty photos (making this a rather expensive buy so three stars) and none from his fascinating collaboration with Mike Mandel in their 'Evidence' book. To really make this title complete the publishers should have included largish thumbnails of all of the spreads from Sultan's three books and put them with the existing biographic pages in the back of the book. The title might have become the standard reference on this intriguing photographer.
+++SEE SOME PHOTOS FROM THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' below the cover.
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