Larry Sultan

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American photographer

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nameLarry Sultan
birth_dateJuly 13, 1946
birth_placeBrooklyn, New York, US
death_date
death_placeGreenbrae, California, US
website
educationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
San Francisco Art Institute
occupationPhotographer, professor
spouseKatherine Sultan
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| name = Larry Sultan | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = July 13, 1946 | birth_place =Brooklyn, New York, US | death_date = | death_place =Greenbrae, California, US | website = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | known_for = | education =University of California, Santa Barbara San Francisco Art Institute | employer = | occupation = Photographer, professor | title = | spouse =Katherine Sultan | children = | parents = | relatives = Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009.

Sultan's books include Evidence (1977) with Mike Mandel, Pictures From Home (1992) and The Valley (2004). A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work is exhibited in museums in the United States.

Early life and education

Sultan was born on July 13, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, part of Los Angeles, California, where his parents moved when he was an infant. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a bachelor's degree in political science, and received a master's degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.

Life and work

He started his career in the 1970s as a conceptual photographer. In 1977, he published a collection of photographs he found in corporate and government archives called Evidence with fellow photographer Mike Mandel. The New York Times characterized Evidence as "a watershed in the history of art photography." The two men also created billboards aimed at slowing down road traffic. He then published Pictures From Home, a collection of photographs taken of his parents in the San Fernando Valley from 1982 to 1992, whose role was to question societal expectations of gender and aging. His 2004 assignment for Maxim, which consisted of photographs of middle-class residences rented by the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, led to another photographic series called The Valley. He photographed Paris Hilton for Interview in his parents' bedroom in his childhood home.

Sultan was an instructor of photography at his alma mater, the San Francisco Art Institute, from 1978 to 1988. He then taught at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco as Chair of the Photography Department from 1993 to 1999, and as distinguished professor of art from 1989 to 2009.

He served on the board of trustees of the Headlands Center for the Arts from 1992 to 1998. At the time of his death he was the artist trustee at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a position he had taken up in the same year.

He was married to Katherine Sultan, also known as Kelly Sultan. He died of cancer on December 13, 2009, at his home in Greenbrae, California.

Publications

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Sultan's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

References

  1. Riefe, Jordan. (3 May 2017). "Larry Sultan: the artist-in-residence for America's middle-class suburbia". [[The Guardian]].
  2. Kennedy, Randy. (2009-12-14). "Larry Sultan, California Photographer, Dies at 63 (Published 2009)". The New York Times.
  3. Avishay Artsy, [https://www.jewishjournal.com/culture/article/larry_sultan_finding_beauty_photographing_the_mundane Larry Sultan: Finding beauty photographing the mundane], ''[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]'', December 5, 2014
  4. (2017-04-25). "Why Larry Sultan's Staged Pictures of Parents and Porn Stars Feel So Personal".
  5. Winant, Carmen. (November 4, 2014). "The Influence and Legacy of Larry Sultan".
  6. "Larry Sultan : CV".
  7. Randy Kennedy, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/arts/14sultan.html?_r=0 Larry Sultan, California Photographer, Dies at 63], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 14, 2009
  8. "Larry Sultan Biography - Stephen Wirtz Gallery".
  9. "Larry Sultan - California College of the Arts". [[California College of the Arts]].
  10. O'Hagan, Sean. (2 May 2017). "Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan review – when Mom and Dad lived the dream". [[The Observer]].
  11. "[https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-mourns-larry-sultan/ SFMOMA mourns Larry Sultan]". [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], 16 December 2009. Accessed 30 May 2017
  12. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Larry Sultan". [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].
  13. "Eureka Fellowship Program :: Past Grantees :: 1990". [[The Fleishhacker Foundation]].
  14. "1999 Billenium Competition Artists Awards : 1991 Winners". [[The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation]].
  15. "Larry Sultan's Homeland: American Story - Amon Carter Museum of American Art". [[Amon Carter Museum of American Art]].
  16. "Larry Sultan: Here and Home - LACMA". [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]].
  17. "Larry Sultan: Here & Home, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from October 23, 2015–January 24. 2016". [[Milwaukee Art Museum]].
  18. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022131340/https://www.sfmoma.org/info/mushist_timeline.asp Museum History: Timeline]", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as retrieved by the [[Wayback Machine]] on October 22, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
  19. "Pier 24 Collection : Here". [[Pier 24 Photography]].
  20. "About Face - Pier 24". [[Pier 24 Photography]].
  21. (7 January 2015). "Secondhand at Pier 24 Photography".
  22. "Larry Sultan".
  23. "Pier 24 Collection : Pilara Foundation Collection". [[Pier 24 Photography]].
  24. "Search Results". [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].

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