Artist: Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan is an art, commercial, and editorial photographer. His intended to look as if he happened upon a situation despite the fact that it's entirely staged. While his work is composed of a varying number subjects, Sultan has a way of projecting himself into his own work. As his father said regarding a photo from the series Pictures from Home, "That's not me sitting on the bed, that's you sitting on the bed. That's a self portrait." His ability to project self into an image and make it a commentary about the subject and place within the photo is quite astounding.

Born 1946 in the state of New York, three years later they moved to California where Sultan graduated from the University of California in 1968 with a B.A. and from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973 with an M.F.A. Ten years later, he began work on  what became one of his most well known projects Pictures from Home. It took him a full decade to complete the project. During the later years of his career he battle ferociously with cancer until he passed away in Dec. 2009.

"The difference of course is that my own pictures figure predominately in Pictures From Home and stand in contest to the image/artifacts of my parents. But similar to Evidence the intentions of the project are to push at and extend notions of documentary practice.”

Gefter, Philip. "Larry Sultan's California Dreams" December 17, 2009.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-17/larry-sultans-california-dreams/?cid=tag:all1

“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”

"Larry Sultan."

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/sultan_larry.php

Interviews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUau7LcpEE

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121605471

Gallery:

http://www.wirtzgallery.com/bios/bio_sultan-2.html

Website:

Larry Sultan does not have a personal website.