What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time kno… - Larry Sultan
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time kno…
- Larry Sultan
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and … - Larry Sultan
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and …
...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time.… - Larry Sultan
...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time.…
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… - Larry Sultan
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational…
What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look … - Larry Sultan
What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look …
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and … - Larry Sultan
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and …
I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy. - Larry Sultan
I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in compositi… - Larry Sultan
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in compositi…
I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found… - Larry Sultan
I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found…
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