The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD
April 25 – 28, 2024
My Mother Posing, from the series Pictures from Home, 1984, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additionall sizes
Business Page from the series Pictures from Home, 1985, 20 x 24 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Thanksgiving, from the series Pictures form Home, 1985, 20 x 24 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Empty Pool, from the series Pictures form Home, 1991, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Los Angeles, Early Evening, from the series Pictures from Home, 1986, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Practicing Golf Swing, from the series Pictures from Home, 1986, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Dad on Bed from the series Pictures from Home, 1984, 40 x 30 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Dad with Raft, from the series Pictures from Home, 1987, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Untitled Home Movie Still from the series Pictures from Home / 1984 - 1992
Untitled Home Movie Still from the series Pictures from Home / 1984 - 1992
Untitled Home Movie Still from the series Pictures from Home / 1984 - 1992
Untitled Home Movie Still from the series Pictures from Home / 1984 - 1992
Sharon Wild, from the series The Valley, 2001, 50 x 60 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Chandler Boulevard, from the series The Valley, 2000, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print pleas inquire for additional sizes
Off Sepulveda, from the series The Valley, 2001, 40 x 50 inch archivla pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Woman in Curlers, from the series The Valley, 2002, 60 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Suburban Street in Studio, from the series The Valley, 2000, 40 x 50 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Boxers, Mission Hills, from the series The Valley, 1999, 50 x 60 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Tasha's Thrid Film, from the series The Valley, 1998, 50 x 60 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Golden Staiway, Tarzana, from the series The Valley, 1999, 50 x 60 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Den, Santa Clarita, from the series The Valley, 2002, 50 x 60 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Haskell Ave., from the series The Valley, 1998, 20 x 24 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Vivid Entertainment #2, 2003, 32 x 43 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Vivid Entertainment #3, 2003, 32 x 43 inch archival pigment print please inquire for additional sizes
Bottega Veneta #3, 2008, 32 x 43 inch archival pigment print. Please inquire for additional sizes
Home Alone, 2007, 32 x 43 inch archival pigment print. Please inquire for additional sizes
Luke, Mattress, 2007, 32 x 43 inch archival pigment print. Please inquire for additional sizes
Belarus, 2006, 32 x 43 inch archival print please inquire for additional sizes
Larry Sultan grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley, which became a source of inspiration for a number of his projects. His work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life. Sultan’s pioneering book and exhibition Pictures From Home (1992) was a decade long project that features his own mother and father as its primary subjects, exploring photography’s role in creating familial mythologies. Using this same suburban setting, his book, The Valley (2004) examined the adult film industry and the area’s middle-class tract homes that serve as pornographic film sets. Katherine Avenue, (2010) the exhibition and book, explored Sultan’s three main series, Pictures From Home, The Valley, and Homeland along side each other to further examine how Sultan’s images negotiate between reality and fantasy, domesticity and desire, as the mundane qualities of the domestic surroundings become loaded cultural symbols.
In 2012, the monograph Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel was published to examine in depth the thirty plus year collaboration between these artists as they tackled numerous conceptual projects together that includes Billboards, How to Read Music In One Evening, Newsroom, and the seminal photography book Evidence, a collection of found institutional photographs, first published in 1977.
Larry Sultan’s work has been exhibited and published widely and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, the National Gallery, London, the Stedelijk Museum, Musée de l'Elysée, Centre Pompidou, the National Gallery of Art, DC, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he was also recognized with the Bay Area Treasure Award in 2005. Sultan served as a Distinguished Professor of Photography at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946, Larry Sultan passed away at his home in Greenbrae, California in 2009.
Pictures from Home Adapted into Broadway Play
Previews begin: January 10, 2023
Based on the landmark photo memoir by Larry Sultan, adapted to the stage by Sharr White, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein, and Zoë Wanamaker and staged by award-winning director Bartlett Sher, PICTURES FROM HOME will evoke memories of childhood, parenthood, and the hard-won wisdom that comes with both.
