Untitled (My Mother Posing for Me)

Larry Sultan

1984

Photograph of older couple in apartment. The woman has bold eye makeup and a perm and stands facing the camera while the man sits in a chair in front of the television watching a baseball game with his back to the camera.
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Larry Sultan

1946–2009

Much of the work of award-winning photographer Larry Sultan explores the setting and culture of California, though he was born in Brooklyn. His published books include The Valley (2004), Pictures from Home (1992), and Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate (1989). Sultan’s awards include the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2000), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award (1991), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983), and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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