...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 form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge. — 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 to find a new discursive space, a space to wander around those subject matters, is a… — 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)