{"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","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/the-valley-larry-sultan-2004","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}