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Snapshot biographies: Larry Sultan's 'Pictures From Home'

Snapshot biographies: Larry Sultan's 'Pictures From Home'

The house is quiet. They have gone to bed, leaving me alone, and the electric timer has just switched off the living-room lights. It feels like the house has settled in and finally turned on its side to fall asleep. Years ago I would have gone through my mother's purse for one of her cigarettes and smoked in the dark. It was a magical time that the house was mine.

Tonight, however, I'm restless. I sit at the dining-room table; rummage through the refrigerator. What am I looking for?

Snapshot biographies: Larry Sultan's 'Pictures From Home'

Chance Encounters: Guido Guidi on ‘Di sguincio, 1969–81’

Guido Guidi: It’s a selection of the photographs that I took in my day-to-day life for many years: at home or with my closest relatives in Cesena, on my weekly drives to Preganziol, where I’d started working, with the fellow students I shared a room with in Treviso, and with work colleagues. There are also several self-portraits and some pictures taken during a trip to Spain with my wife Marta.
Snapshot biographies: Larry Sultan's 'Pictures From Home'

Details and Dummies: Hal Foster on Thomas Demand’s ‘The Dailies’

When a photograph is bound to the world indexically—a condition once understood to be necessary, even natural, to the medium—it refers to the world intrinsically; in a sense it is nothing but details and so can only produce “effects of the real.” With his imperfect models Thomas Demand stretches this assumed connection between photography and reality, but he does not cut it absolutely.