#larry sultan

This Sunday, bring mom to the Jewish Museum to explore art together on Mother’s Day. This 1984 photograph by Larry Sultan Untitled (Mom Posing in Front of a Green Wall)on view now, captures the artist’s Jewish parents living out the American dream in California: glamorous, sporty—with matching white pants and matching tans—bearing no identifiable trace of the Old World.

Larry Sultan: Here and Home

I’ve been obsessing over this show at LACMA. Last week was my third trip out to see it. Catch it before it goes down in July.

LARRY SULTAN’s “Pictures from Home” Series

“In the midst of the Reagan era, when the institution of family had become a powerful image and political tool, he felt a strong urge “to puncture this mythology of the family and to show what happens when we are driven by images of success.”

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Larry Sultan

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Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel 

EVIDENCE: “UNTITLED” // 1977
LARRY SULTAN & MIKE MANDEL
[gelatin silver print | 20.3 x 25.3 cm.]