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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/photography-is-there-to-construct-the-idea-of-us-as-a-great-family/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

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## More by Larry Sultan

> [...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/when-it-comes-down-to-making-work-that-really-sings-i-don-t-know-if-i/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/literature-especially-has-an-interesting-relationship-to-photography/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/i-think-finding-that-room-to-make-pictures-that-don-t-jump-off-the/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/like-a-ventriloquist-who-laughs-at-his-dummy-s-jokes-i-keep-trying-to/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/i-m-very-interested-in-making-the-photographs-look-real-but-a-lot-of/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/photography-is-there-to-construct-the-idea-of-us-as-a-great-family/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/i-love-making-pictures-even-if-most-of-the-results-are-lousy/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/ambiguity-is-really-important-to-me-part-of-the-difficulty-facing/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

> [ What's important to me is that \[photographs\] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-sultan/what-s-important-to-me-is-that-photographs-have-the-appearance-of/)

[Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-sultan/)

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