"Some artists have confronted the role photography itself has played in creating and complicating our sense of domestic life. Larry Sultan photographed his father and family over a ten year period spanning the 70s and 80s as part of an elaborate project that included his parents own photos, home movies and statements. This was the Reagan era which preached the values of family life, a version Sultan didn't recognise.
"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 we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology" (Larry Sultan)."
Review of "Pictures from Home" by Larry Sultan
http://www.galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/sultan.html
Bill Charles Gallery
http://www.billcharles.com/sultan/sultan_1.htm
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