Pictures from Home

Photographer
Larry Sultan
Publisher

Abrams
ISBN

9780810937215 — Open search and refresh status Amazon.ca — Open search and refresh status Amazon.com — Open search and refresh status AbeBooks — Open search and refresh status eBay — Open search and refresh status
Publication Year

1992
Edition

First Edition

Hardcover with Dust Jacket Hardcover English 112 pages 27.9 x 25.4 x 1.9 cm 1.18 kg

Description

Larry Sultan’s “Pictures from Home” is a seminal work in narrative photography that blends candid memoir with family history. Over ten years, Sultan photographed his parents in their Southern California home, weaving his own contemporary color imagery with vintage family snapshots and Super-8 stills. The book functions as a “narrative collage,” questioning the boundary between staged and documentary truth while measuring “how a life was lived against how a life was dreamed.” It remains a definitive critique of suburban domesticity and the fabricated nature of the American family unit.

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