Larry Sultan
| Larry Sultan | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 13, 1946 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | December 13, 2009 (aged 63) Greenbrae, Marin County, California |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Education |
University of California, Santa Barbara San Francisco Art Institute |
| Occupation | Photographer, professor |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Sultan |
Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work is exhibited in museums in the United States.
Sultan was born on July 13, 1946 in New York City. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California, where his parents moved when he was an infant. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a bachelor's degree in political science, and received a master's in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.
He started his career in the 1970s as a conceptual photographer. In 1977, he published a collection of photographs he found in corporate and government archives called "Evidence" with fellow photographer Mike Mandel.The New York Times characterized them as "a watershed in the history of art photography." The two men also created billboards aimed at slowing down road traffic. He then published Pictures From Home, a collection of photographs taken of his parents in the San Fernando Valley from 1982 to 1992, whose role was to question societal expectations of gender and aging. His 2004 assignment for Maxim, which consisted of photographs of middle-class residences rented by the porn industry in the San Fernandino Valley, led to another photographic series called The Valley. He photographed Paris Hilton for Interview in his parents' bedroom in his childhood home.
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