Larry Sultan Video

Photo by Larry Sultan

Daylight Magazine has a nice 5-minute video presentation about the work of the late Larry Sultan, made in collaboration with Obit Magazine.

I mentioned, in the "Blue Guitar" post, having just seen some of Larry's work in the Vernacular show in Chicago.

A shame there's no current book of his work.

Mike

UPDATE: It turns out Larry's book The Valley is still available in the U.S. I've never even seen the book, though, and I've never knowingly seen any of the work from it, so I can't say anything about its contents.

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Comments

[Gary]

Thanks for that link.

No books?
Isn't his book, "The Valley" still available?
Also, "Evidence" has just been reissued.

Gary

[James Bullard]

"Not a single piece of Evidence (his 1st significant work as a photographer) was shot by him". Excuse me but I thought people who chose other people's photographs for publication were editors. He chooses the anonymously industrial from corporate and government files which he then publishes. For this is considered a great photographer? Sigh.

[Mike Johnston]

James,
Yes, unfortunate choice of words. They should have said "his first significant photographic work, which he edited."

He was quite a photographer, though, no question about that.

Mike

[Mike Johnston]

Gary,
"The Valley" is out of print, although Photo-Eye seems to think they're getting some more--probably an overstock stash from somewhere. You can still find cheap copies of it on Amazon Marketplace. And the 2003 reprint of "Evidence" is gone now, as far as I know.

Mike

[Sean]

I would love to own "Pictures from Home." I hope it gets reprinted soon; more people need to see what he left us

[Gary]

Mike,
I was at SFMOMA a couple of weeks ago and they had several copies of "Evidence" out on the display table, so I assumed it had been reprinted again. Maybe it was a rediscovered batch of the 2003 edition. Amazon shows "The Valley" as "In Stock" today.

Gary

[David Comdico]

I hope someone reissues Pictures From Home. PDN did a feature on him last year. Unfortunately, the web version only includes a single photo from the magazine spread: http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/esearch/e3i6d1d0dca12d81bc422845bc0b31a6f03

[Joe Reifer]

If you're writing off Evidence just due to the concept, you're missing a pivotal book in the evolution of modern photography. Along with Ed Ruscha's work, Evidence is interesting in both an art history context, and just purely photographically. If you are at all a fan of the "head scratcher" -- images that make you say "WTF?" then you will love this book.

[Craig A]

I was in art school in 1992 when I saw the "Pictures from Home" exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Modern Art. It blew me away. I immediately went out and started photographing my family and old neighborhood in a vain attempt at capturing the melancholic spirit of that show. My signed copy of "Pictures from Home" is one my most prized photography books.

[Jacob Rus]

Mike: go find a copy of The Valley, straightaway. It’s hilariously disturbing, moreso when compared to Pictures from Home.