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… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
...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… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
...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… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image -… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
![“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 they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.” quote by Larry Sultan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e3/larry-sultan-44973_appearance_what-s-important-to-me-is-that-photograp_3116031.jpg)