Larry Sultan, Place, and Domesticity

Notions of place and home permeate the photography of Larry Sultan and the exhibition Larry Sultan: Here and Home, currently on view. Learn more about the internationally renowned photographer whose intensely personal images — many drawn from his own family’s history — blend documentary and staged elements in their explorations of storytelling, family, and domesticity.
Artwork image, LarrySultan, Canal District San Rafael
The Smart Set
California Dreamin’
Artwork image, Larry Sultan, Dad with Golf Clubs
The Iris
Larry Sultan’s Visions of Suburbia
Portrait of photographer Larry Sultan
Offsite
Artists in Conversation: Larry Sultan by Catherine Liu
Artwork image, Larry Sultan, Meander Corte Madera
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Video still, Larry Sultan LACMA interview 2003
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2003 Larry Sultan Interview
A white space with an O outlined in black
Open Space
Larry Sultan, 1946 – 2009
Artwork image, Larry Sultan, My Mother Posing for Me
The New Yorker
Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs
Portrait of photographer Larry Sultan
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A photograph of a backyard, with a shirtless man reclining on a staircase, and a woman in high heels and a slit-leg skirt sitting on a patio chair.
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Larry Sultan: Documenting a hidden side of the suburbs
A wall of small, framed family photographs
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Larry Sultan discovers his family through photography