Larry Sultan - The Valley
£280.00 - £380.00
Publisher: Scalo Verlag AG
Year: 2004
Format: Hardcover / Removable dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Pages: 176
Size: 14.5 x 11in
Bay Area photographer Larry Sultan’s The Valley series focuses on the San Fernando Valley, where he grew up, and addresses the use of ordinary homes as sets for pornographic films. In Sultan’s large-scale color photographs, mundane objects — a roll of paper towels, a stack of dirty dishes — take on new weight, and suburban life becomes a symbolically charged backdrop. The project investigates the meaning of home and asks why the ideal of middle-class domesticity lends itself to this most curious form of cultural appropriation.