For his latest body of work, Larry Sultan hired Mexican day laborers as actors and subjects in his photographs, which he made on the outskirts of Southern Californian suburbs. He found these illegal laborers outside a nearby strip mall where hundreds of men wait day by day to be picked up for hourly work. Sultan directed the men’s actions and gestures while drawing from his own memories of home life and interpretations of their experiences as exiles.
Tag: Larry Sultan
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AMERICANSUBURB X: LARRY SULTAN – "Homeland (2007-2009)"
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The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs – The New York Times
The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs (Published 2016)
Pictures that capture a moment in history sometimes contain a glint of magic, an element of wonder that can never be fully understood.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-great-photographs.html
Larry Sultan once said he “always thought of a great photograph as if some creature walked into my room; it’s like, how did you get here? … The more you try to control the world, the less magic you get.” Winogrand had no objection to staging things; it was just that he could never come up with anything as interesting as what was out there in the streets. But when does the staging start?
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Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs – The New Yorker
Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs
Over three decades, the artist trained his camera on the houses and people of his home turf, photographing immigrant laborers, porn stars, and his parents.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sex-and-longing-in-larry-sultans-california-suburbs?mbid=rss
Larry then said something that stopped me in my tracks: “Isn’t imagination really the final measure of intelligence?” It was the most obvious thing in the world—and revelatory—but it had never occurred to me before. He seemed always to have such observations, casually offered, as if in an afterthought, and, because of it, I always found myself learning something when I was with him.
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How Larry Sultan Influenced Hundreds of Photographers – LightBox
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/04/larry-sultan-retrospective-lacma-legacy/#1
Sultan’s images are, as he was, at once sincere and seductive, guarded and vulnerable. He was ultimately interested in our lifelong search for placement, picturing people who lost their homes (immigrants in foreign landscapes), changed their lifestyles (his own parents in their newfound retirement community), or staged domestic scenes (porn stars). Even his early work, Evidence, was about making images homeless by exiling them from their contexts
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Photo Levallois 2014 Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel – The Eye of Photography
Photo Levallois 2014 Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
The seventh edition of the Photo Levallois festival opened on October 10th. This year’s program featured five exhibitions at three different locations. The centerpiece is Evidence, an exhibition dedicated to the artist duo Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. This photo series, on display at the Salons d’Honneurs at the Levallois Hôtel de Ville (although no longer), is considered a precursor to the new practice of conceptual photography.
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Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan
Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan
On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/happy-birthday-larry-sultan.html?currentPage=all
On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with Mike Mandel, a hugely influential conceptual photo book that consisted of reproduced images from industrial and government archives. For the rest of his career Sultan would create projects that bridged the realms of fictional and documentary photography
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Larry Sultan, Pictures From Home « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG
Larry Sultan, Pictures From Home
Like so many others, I was heartbroken to learn of the death of Larry Sultan. (Read obits here, here, here, here). I met Larry in 2004. He and I were showing concurrently at the Stephen Wirtz Galle…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/larry-sultan-pictures-from-home/
I ran into Larry a couple of other times over the years. In Munich we were in a group show together. We cracked jokes during a long press conference in which neither of us understood a word being said. We also talked about photography. Larry was incredibly smart about the medium. I’ve always said that there is nobody whom I’d rather have had the chance to study under.
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PDNPulse: Larry Sultan Dies at 63
Fine art photographer Larry Sultan died yesterday at his home in California at the age of 63, according to The New York Times. The cause of death was cancer, the paper reported.
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Larry Sultan Q&A – Art – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel
American photographer Larry Sultan takes time out of his hectic schedule to talk inspiration, achievement, and Charlotte Rampling with wallpaper.com…
Check it out here. Via Brian Ulrich.