Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan ( born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City; † December 13, 2009 in Greenbrae, California ) was an American artist and photographer. He was educated at the University of California and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from. He then studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where he acquired in 1973 a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. Sultan was until his death Professor of Photography and Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts in Oakland.

His success was reflected not only in his world made ​​exhibitions of large-format, sometimes entire wall reproduced photographs, many museums and private individuals acquired his works.

Works (excerpt)

Sultan's first widely acclaimed work was the photo series Evidence, which he put together with Mike Mandel 1977. Evidence gathered 59 photographs, which together contributed the two artists from police archives, the archives of the Ministry of Interior as well as from different organizations and businesses. The individual pictures were from experiments or other arrangements, lack of subtitling incomprehensible to the viewer situations. The series was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and later published as a book.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2004: Larry Sultan: The Valley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • 2004: Larry Sultan: The Valley Series, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
  • 2004: Larry Sultan: The Valley, Campus Gallery, Bayreuth
  • 2009: Larry Sultan: Homeland, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
  • 2010: Larry Sultan: Katherine Avenue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

Group Exhibition

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