LARRY SULTAN 'Conversation...', 1986 from 'Pictures From Home' SIGNED Photograph

Description: LARRY SULTAN (1946 - 2009), 'Conversation through Kitchen Window, Los Angeles, 1986', 1999 (from the Pictures From Home series) SIGNED Color Photograph Color Coupler Print (C-Print / Chromogenic), 1986/1999. This print is one of four photographs from 'L.A.', Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Fine Print Portfolio, 1999. Published by FiftyCrows Fine Print Program. Edition size: 150 (from the edition of 100 non-numbered prints; there were also 50 numbered prints produced). Dimensions: 11" x 14" sheet (10-1/2" x 12-1/2" image). SIGNED in ink by artist on verso. Excellent condition with no visible defects, never framed or displayed (last image shown is a framed example). This image is in the permanent photography collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (accession number 2006.580).PROVENANCE: Acquired from Fifty Crows Foundation, San Francisco, CA in 2006.REFERENCE: 'Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home', Harry Abrams, NY, 1992, p. 15; 'So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan', 2006, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, illustrated. "When I was working on Pictures From Home, my parents’ voices – their stories as well as their arguments with my version of our shared history – were crucial to the book. They called into question the documentary truth the pictures seemed to carry. I wanted to subvert the sentimental home movies and snapshots with my more contentious images of suburban daily life, but at the same time I wished to subvert my images with my parents’ insights into my point of view". – Larry Sultan, from an interview with Sheryl Conkelton in Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Arts 1999/2000 Pictures From Home (1982 - 1992) was a decade-long project Larry Sultan initiated when his father, Irving, was forced into early retirement from his career as vice president of the Schick Safety Razor Company. As initially conceived, the project was to be about “what happens when – as I interpreted my father’s fate – corporations discard their no-longer-young employees, and how the resulting frustrations and feelings of powerlessness find their way into family relations,” explains Sultan. While Irving continued to be Sultan’s favored subject, the project evolved to include video stills from his family’s home movies and the on-going commentary on Sultan’s project by both of his parents. Interestingly, working in the San Fernando Valley suburbia where he grew up led Sultan to his next project, The Valley, an investigation of suburban houses used as pornographic film sets. Sultan's family measures its progress by conventional benchmarks that define postwar America's aspirations: the birth of children; the achievement of financial security; a progression of suburban houses; his father's climb up the corporate ladder; his mother's growing need for a life outside the home. Eventually, the family faces the painful realities of aging, narrowing options and calcifying relationships. The various forms of photographs in "Pictures From Home" tell these stories in a heightened, almost operatic manner. First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan’s own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, the MACK design of Pictures From Home (2017) clarifies the multiplicity of voices – both textual and pictorial – in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work. Emphasising the cinematic motion of the family’s home videos, the Super-8 film stills have been newly digitised and magnified, with select scenes running full-bleed across double-page spreads. Meanwhile, Sultan’s photographs of his parents as they go about their daily lives – against the quintessential backdrop of the Reagan-era American dream – are supplemented with previously unpublished images. Most significantly, the book honours Sultan as the oft-hailed ‘King of Color Photography’. Larry Sultan (b. 1946, Brooklyn; d. 2009, California) 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 work has been exhibited and published widely. Most recently, the Los Angeles County Museum presented a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Sultan. His photography is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Sultan served as a Distinguished Professor of Photography at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Yancey Richardson, New York recently presented 'Pictures from Home, an exhibition of photographs by Larry Sultan' (2023). The exhibition coincided with a Broadway play of the same name, starring Nathan Lane, Zoë Wanamaker, and Danny Burstein at Studio 54. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2023 'Untitled Home Movie Stills' (group exhibition), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 'Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home', Yancy Richardson, New York, NY2022 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), Musei San Domenico, Forti, Italy 'Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising' (group exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA2021 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM), Marseille, France2020 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand2019 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 'Close to Home: Erica Deeman, Mark McKnight, Eva O'Leary, and Larry Sultan', Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA 'Larry Sultan: Domestic Theater', Yancey Richardson, New York, NY 'In the Sunshine of Neglect' (group exhibition), California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China2018 'Larry Sultan: Swimmers', Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now' (group exhibition), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 'The House Imaginary' (group exhibition), San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) San Jose, CA 'Scenes From the Collection: CONSTELLATIONS' (group exhibition), Jewish Museum, New York, NY2017 'Larry Sultan: Here and Home', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA 'Larry Sultan: Editorial Works', Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA2016 'Ordinary Pictures' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN2015 'Larry Sultan: Here and Home', Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 'Larry Sultan', S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium 'Larry Sultan', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany 2014 'Larry Sultan: Here and Home', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 'Larry Sultan', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA2011 'Hyper Real - Art and America around 1970' (group exhibition), Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany 'Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families' (group exhibition), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC 'The Truth is Not in the Mirror: Photography and a Constructed Identity' (group exhibition), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI 2010 'Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel: Evidence', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland 'Larry Sultan: Katherine Avenue', Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany 2009 'This Side of Paradise: Los Angeles (1865-2008)' (group exhibition), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Musée de la photographie, Chalon-sur-Saone, France 'Larry Sultan: Homeland', Andreas Murkudis, Berlin, Germany 'Larry Sultan: Homeland', Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 'An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area - Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself' (group exhibition), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 'Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY 'Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel: Evidence', Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany 'Licht-Schreiben' (group exhibition), Forum für Fotografie, Köln, Germany 'This Side of Paradise: Los Angeles (1865-2008)' (group exhibition), Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2008 'Lothar Baumgarten, Victor Burgin, Anthony McCall, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel' (group exhibition), Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 'Beyond the Backyard' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, IL 'Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2007 'Larry Sultan: Around the House', Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London, UK 'Regarding Intimacy' (group exhibition), Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Domus Atrium 2002 (DA2), Salamanca, Spain 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, IL 2006 'So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan' (group exhibition), Art Institute of Chicago, IL 'ClickDoubleClick: The Documentary Factor' (group exhibition), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Campus-Galerie der BAT, Bayreuth, Germany 'ClickDoubleClick: The Documentary Factor' (group exhibition), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 'Dreaming California: Ruth-Marion Baruch, Bill Owens, and Larry Sultan' (group exhibition), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA 2005 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium 'Larry Sultan: Evidence Revisited', The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2004 'Larry Sultan: Evidence Revisited', Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 'Larry Sultan: The Valley - San Fernando, 1998-2003', Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Janet Borden Gallery, New York 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', the apartment, Athens, Greece 'Larry Sultan: Evidence', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 2003 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy 2002 'Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home', Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland 'Larry Sultan', Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2001 'Larry Sultan: The Valley', Janet Borden Gallery, New York 2000 'Larry Sultan', Galerie MK, Rotterdam, Netherlands PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE

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