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Still Looking: Self-Love, Ethics, and Seeing Jewish
Levitt talks about photography as an ethical and civil practice. She uses Azoulay's civic contract and her insistence on the importance of returning to photographlc images again and again to reconsider Larry Sultan's Pictures from Home, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, and a photograph of her own to draw connections between the kind of civility that Azoulay argues for and the form of ethical looking that drew her to Silverman's work in the first place.
Journal Article
CALIFORNIA DREAMS
Originally published as a book titled Pictures from Home, in 1992, it included [Larry Sultan]'s photographs as well as family snaps, stills from his father's home movies and other family pictures, interspersed with observations from Larry and his parents commenting on their experience of being photographed by him. Unlike the typically passive subjects most people become under the gaze of the lens, Irving and Jean Sultan, while encouraging their son in his work, were able and ready to make their own response. Irving was obsessed with golf, so in one picture Larry photographed him in his shorts, practising a swing in the living room. It seemed the perfect tableau vivant. Irving stands barefoot on the lush green carpet, the television on, the sunny Californian garden visible through the wall of net curtains. But the tough, determined countenance of this patriarch is undermined by his frail old legs. Irving's feedback was as revealing as the photograph: \"It's such a shitty swing that I cringe every time I see it\". In his final body of work, completed shortly before he died last year, Larry Sultan photographed migrant Hispanic workers in the Bay Area of San Francisco, near where he lived. Often undocumented migrants, they gather at specific locations in the early morning - builders' merchants, freeway off-ramps, etc - and stand around, hoping to be hired for the day. Larry would explain his purpose and hire them to act in his tableaux. Always set within a broader landscape, his Hispanic actors would occupy the margins of the American Dream, performing daily tasks outside the village, away from the homes, wandering in a homeland that excludes them.
Newspaper Article
Revered photographer Larry Sultan dead at 63
\"He realized the role of photography in culture and helped set the tone of the field,\" said Thom Sempere, [Larry Sultan]'s former student and executive director of PhotoAlliance, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. \"His photographs are not simply pictures to look at, but about the thought behind the process.\" \"What he tried to point out was the difference between how we dream our life is and how our life actually is,\" said JoAnne Northrup, Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. Northrup cited one of Sultan's most recent bodies of work, \"The Valley,\" which was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2004, as a continued effort to peel back the illusions of daily life.
Newspaper Article
