{"title":"Larry Sultan","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"83\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"83\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eLarry Sultan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"342\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eSultan unsettles photographic truth from within. \u003cstrong\u003eArchives become riddles\u003c\/strong\u003e, family becomes stage. His work exposes how power, masculinity, and belief hide inside ordinary images—quietly dismantling the authority of what a photograph claims to show.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-valley-larry-sultan-2004","title":"The Valley — Larry Sultan (2004)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"990\"\u003eThis is Larry Sultan’s \u003cem data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"279\"\u003eThe Valley\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that took five years to shoot and a lifetime of visual intelligence to frame. Published in 2004 by Scalo, it captures a strange and distinctly American intersection of domesticity and performance — the San Fernando Valley, epicentre of the adult film industry, rendered not as spectacle, but as a liminal theatre of longing, boredom, power, and collapse. Working with large format, Sultan inserts himself into the private homes used as film sets, portraying moments in-between takes or fully staged with deliberate ambiguity. The result is disquieting: bathrobes, fake tears, boom mics, indifferent husbands, nude actors caught under bright domestic lighting — the unglamorous infrastructure of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1733\"\u003eEach photograph is lush, exacting, and mournful. Sultan’s palette leans toward deep velvet purples, beige carpets, overlit flesh and faux-wood panelling. If Araki gives us erotic ruin and Moriyama the grain of hunger, Sultan gives us stasis — desire without climax, where everything feels both overexposed and drained. This is California, but not as fantasy: it’s the Valley as stage, memory, and prison. Sultan, who grew up in the Valley and previously photographed his own parents with similar tenderness and unease (\u003cem data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1531\"\u003ePictures from Home\u003c\/em\u003e), extends his project of familial estrangement into a more public theatre. A book for anyone tracking the blurred borders of performance, the machinery of sex, and the deathless ache of suburban light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"2024\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"1754\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1754\" data-end=\"1757\"\u003eTitle: The Valley\u003cbr data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1777\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Larry Sultan\u003cbr data-start=\"1806\" data-end=\"1809\"\u003eDate: 2004\u003cbr data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"1822\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1869\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1918\"\u003eDimensions: 30.5 × 34 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"1945\"\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr data-start=\"1955\" data-end=\"1958\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Scalo\u003cbr data-start=\"1983\" data-end=\"1986\"\u003eISBN: 3-908247-79-9\u003cbr data-start=\"2005\" data-end=\"2008\"\u003eCondition: Used. Good condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"2026\" data-end=\"2029\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2093\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777110016338,"sku":null,"price":220.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_8c6bb6ea-c6c2-45a7-8d6d-6b6ae5003da2.jpg?v=1769295001"},{"product_id":"katherine-avenue-larry-sultan-2010","title":"Katherine Avenue – Larry Sultan,  Steidl 2010","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"401\"\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"136\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"198\"\u003eMemory, suburbia, and myth — a triptych of American intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"201\"\u003eThree series woven into one powerful photobook: from familial portraits to porn sets to migrant laborers, Sultan’s vision is both personal and political — an excavation of the American dream’s façade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"469\"\u003eStill sealed in its original publisher's wrap. A flawless edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"472\"\u003e⸻\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"919\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"484\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"503\"\u003eKatherine Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"506\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"534\"\u003eArtist \/ Author \/ Maker:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"566\"\u003eLarry Sultan (1946–2009, USA)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"569\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"592\"\u003eTechnique \/ Medium:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"593\" data-end=\"639\"\u003eHardcover book with dustjacket, offset print\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"642\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"654\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"670\"\u003eFirst Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"670\" data-end=\"673\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"687\"\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"688\" data-end=\"698\"\u003eUnsigned\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"701\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"710\"\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"717\"\u003e2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"720\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"734\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"786\"\u003eMint – new, unread, still in original shrink-wrap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"789\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"789\" data-end=\"804\"\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"819\"\u003e274 × 269 mm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"819\" data-end=\"822\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"822\" data-end=\"846\"\u003eOrigin \/ Provenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"919\"\u003eSteidl, Göttingen – published posthumously as a definitive compilation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777118830930,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/9A293FA4-257F-43CA-AB89-9FBD58910E7B.jpg?v=1768224684"},{"product_id":"evidence-larry-sultan-amp-mike-mandel-2017","title":"Evidence — Larry Sultan \u0026 Mike Mandel (Second printing, 2017)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"316\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1977, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvidence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a seminal photobook by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan, composed entirely of found photographs sourced from the archives of over one hundred U.S. government agencies, research institutions, and corporations. The images were originally made as documents of scientific experiments, industrial procedures, police investigations, and technical research. Mandel and Sultan stripped them of their original captions and contexts, reordering them as autonomous visual statements, thereby transforming utilitarian imagery into enigmatic, often absurd or unsettling art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis edition, published by D.A.P. \/ Distributed Art Publishers in 2017 (ISBN 9781942884149), is the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003esecond printing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of the 2003 facsimile reissue. It preserves the design and sequence of the original 1977 book, with production overseen by Working Dog Press and design by Victor Mingovits. The photographs are drawn from the archives of institutions including the San Jose Police Department, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, General Atomic Company, and the U.S. Department of the Interior.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvidence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has since been recognized as a foundational work of conceptual photography, upending traditional notions of authorship, documentation, and narrative. 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A landmark photobook in the tradition of personal documentary, it records the artist’s prolonged, intimate observation of his own parents in their California home, fusing suburban banality with psychological complexity. Sultan’s parents are rendered not as archetypes, but as collaborators in a long domestic performance — post-war optimism, retirement disillusionment, the American Dream both achieved and unraveling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"1041\"\u003eThe book blends photography with Sultan’s own writings, home movie stills, and archival images, layering time and perspective. His father appears buttoned-up, restrained; his mother more theatrical. The visual rhythm is slow, even tender — but not nostalgic. Sultan turns the Californian light onto middle-class performance, surveillance, and aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1476\"\u003eThis edition is adapted by Michael Mack and Lewis Chaplin and remains faithful to Sultan’s original layout, while asserting a renewed relevance in an age saturated by self-image. Its presence in Darwin sits alongside other works that interrogate the familial and the photographic — Elinor Carucci, Leigh Ledare — but Sultan’s tone is subtler, more formally reserved, and conceptually grounded in the critique of photography itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1831\"\u003eTitle: Pictures from Home\u003cbr data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1527\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Larry Sultan\u003cbr data-start=\"1556\" data-end=\"1559\"\u003eDate: Originally 1992; this edition 2021 (second printing)\u003cbr data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1620\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1658\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1690\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 27 x 25 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1725\" data-end=\"1728\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1748\"\u003ePages: Unstated\u003cbr data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1766\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: MACK\u003cbr data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1793\"\u003eISBN: 9781910164785\u003cbr data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1815\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52561965678930,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_1_def08813-1d37-42f2-b58e-8e92f5c5b8f1.jpg?v=1769359300"},{"product_id":"larry-sultan-and-mike-mandel-sultan-mandel-dap-walther-konig","title":"Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel — Sultan \u0026 Mandel (DAP \/ Walther König)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"545\"\u003eThis large-format monograph is the definitive survey of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel’s decades-long collaboration — a pivotal partnership in conceptual photography. 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