Pictures From Home / Statement + History
Los Angeles, Early Evening / 1986
Nightstand / 1984
Reading In Bed / 1988
Reading at the Kitchen Table / 1988
Conversation on Bed / 1986
Conversation Through Kitchen Window / 1986
Fixing the Rain Bird / 1985
Talking in Driveway / 1986
Chess Game / 1985
My Father Sleeping / 1984
Sunset / 1989
Mom in Doorway / 1992
My Father's Dresser / 1985
Mom Peeking Through Curtain / 1989
Thanksgiving / 1985
Dad at Whiteboard / 1984
Schick Razor Advertisement / 1992
Golf Trophy / 1984
Dad on Bed / 1984
Business Page / 1984
Gates Through Car Window / 1991
Palm Springs, Sprinkler / 1991
Dad With Raft / 1987
Dad on Sofa / 1984
Mom on Chaise Lounge / 1987
Dad's Legs / 1986
Dad and Plant / 1986
Practicing Golf Swing / 1986
Dad With Gold Clubs / 1987
Mom Garage Portrait / 1988
Dad's Desk / 1987
Across the Divide / 1984
Discussion, Kitchen Table / 1985
Talking Through Car Window / 1987
Argument in Hallway / 1986
Mom Touching Wallpaper / 1986
Mom and Dad, Pool / 1987
Dad, Pool Portrait / 1987
My Mother Posing for Me / 1984
Mom in Curtain / 1991
Dad in the Dark / 1987
Moving the Bed / 1991
Empty Pool / 1991
Fixing the Vacuum / 1991
Close Up / 1992
Mom in Pool / 1990
Dad on Boat / 1984
The house is quiet. They have gone to bed, leaving me alone, and the electric timer has just switched off the living-room lights. It feels like the house has finally turned on its side to fall asleep. Years ago I would have gone through my mother’s purse for one of her cigarettes and smoked in the dark. It was a magical time that the house was mine.
Tonight, however, I am restless. I sit at the dining-room table; rummage through the refrigerator. What am I looking for?
All day long I’ve been scavenging, poking around in rooms and closets, peering at their things, studying them. I arrange my rolls of exposed film into long rows and count and recount them as if they were lost. There are twenty-eight.
What drives me to continue this work is difficult to name. It has more to do with love than with sociology, with being a subject in the drama rather than a witness. And in the odd and jumbled process of working everything shifts; the boundaries blur, my distance slips, the arrogance and illusion of immunity falters. I wake up in the middle of the night, stunned and anguished. These are my parents. From that simple fact, everything follows. I realize that beyond the rolls of film and the few good pictures, the demands of my project and my confusion about its meaning, is the wish to take photography literally. To stop time. I want my parents to live forever.
Larry Sultan: An excerpt from Chapter One of Pictures From Home, 1992
Selected Exhibitions
1996
Queens Museum
New York
1995
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Scottsdale, Arizona
1994
Corcoran Museum of Art
Washington DC
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego, California
Chicago Cultural Arts Center
Chicago Illinois
1992
San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose, California
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
San Francisco, California
1995
Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home
George Howell
Art Papers
Family Values
D.H. Mader
Perspektief, Holland
Mom-and-Pop Art
Bettie Rinehart
New Times
The Autobiographie Realism in Recent Photography and Media Art
Bas Vroege & Deanna Herst
Perspektief, Holland
Larry Sultan’s Pictures From Home
Kiana Dicker
Blast
Thought-Provoking Exhibit Examines Meaning of Home
Tom Patterson
Winter-Salem Journal
1994
A Jewish Family: From Brooklyn to New York
Richard Woodward
ARTnews
Family Pictures Tell a Multitude of Stories
Suzy Shultz
Chicago Sun Times
Larry Sultan’s Photos Raise an Old Question: Whose Life is it Anyway?
Larry Thall
Chicago Tribune
Portrait of the Home Folks: Poignant Family Essay
Robert L. Puncus
The San Diego Union-Tribune
1993
Family Viewing
Vince Aletti
Village Voice
Pictures from Home
Michael Collins
Creative Camera
Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home
Charlotte Moser
Artweek
Family Values
Michael Read
Review: Friends of Photography
Art in Review – Larry Sultan
Charles Hagen
The New York Times
Seen Through the Eyes of a Child
Veronique Veinne
1992
Family Album
Portfolio: Larry Sultan
Los Angeles Times Magazine
Of Human Bonding
Karen Heller
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
All in the Family: Photographer Larry Sultan Stays Close to Home in Search For Truth
Marcia Tanner
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
1991
Dark Domestic Visions
Alice McDermott
New York Times
A House is not a Home
Peter Plagens
Newsweek
Something New Under the Met Sun
John Russler
New York Times
1990
Interview on Fresh Air
Terry Gross and Larry Sultan
PBS
Interview With Larry Sultan
Catherine Liu
Bomb Magazine
1992
Pictures From Home
Larry Sultan
Harry N. Abrams
New York, New York
2010
Katherine Avenue
Larry Sultan
Steidl
Hannover, Germany
1998
Familial Gaze
Marianne Hirsch
Harvard University Press, Massachusetts
1995
Home is Where
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
North Carolina
Parent
Ron Geiber
Dayton Art Institute/Wright State University
Flesh and Blood
Abigail Heyman
The Picture Project, New York
1994
Who’s Looking at the Family
Carol Brown
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archives
Birmingham Art Museum
Brown University
Canadian Center for Art and Architecture
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Di Rosa Foundation
Harvard Business School
Jewish Museum
Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Princeton University
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Smithsonian
University Art Gallery / New Mexico State University
Yale University Art Gallery