"This is one of the most significant American photobooks of the 1990s" (Martin Parr, Gerry Badger) "In the wake of his passing I reread Pictures From Home. Unbelievable. Has there ever been a photographer who writes better than Sultan? I’m certain that nobody has done a better job combining text and pictures. In this regard, Pictures From Home is the absolute zenith. Plainspoken, smart and brutally honest, it is a masterpiece of narrative photography.” (Alec Soth) IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Excellent new edition of the photobook classic from 1992 (originally published by Harry N Abrams, New York). "The original edition of Pictures from Home was a groundbreaking work of art. This new edition is an even more intense, more immersive experience." Stephen Shore "[...] one of the most moving and indelible family portraits I’ve ever read" Dave Eggers "What is Pictures from Home? A memoir, a scrapbook, a cry of pain, and an album of bitterly affectionate photographs. Larry Sultan’s images and words were his reconciliation with the oedipal mess of the American Dream." David Campany "One of the most incredible things about Pictures from Home is how vulnerable Sultan allows himself to be in the text, in which he confronts insecurities about himself and his work, brilliantly deconstructing the project and the challenges of making it. The book’s narrative is profound and deeply moving, while the book’s form breaks with precedent and defies the constraints of any specific genre." Gregory Halpern Larry Sultan is also well known for excellent and important photobook like "Evidence", “The Valley” or "Katherine Avenue". Mack Books, London. 2021. First Mack edition, second printing (identical with the first). Hardcover (as issued). 250 x 270 mm. 192 pages. 140 colour plates. Photos: Larry Sultan. Text in English. Condition: Inside absolutely fresh and clean with no marks, no foxing; new and unread. Outside like new and unread; marginal bumping at the top right corner of the front cover (with no consequence for inside), little bumping at the top left corner of the rear cover (so last ten pages dog-eared). Overall very good condition; still shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Great and important photobook title. "What drives me to continue this work is difficult to name. It has more to do with love than with sociology. With being a subject in the drama rather than a witness. And in the odd and jumbled process of working, everything shifts: the boundaries blur, my distance slips, the arrogance and illusion of immunity falters. I wake up in the middle of the night, stunned and anguished. These are my parents. From that simple fact, everything follows." Larry Sultan "First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan’s pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan’s own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices – both textual and pictorial – in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work. Emphasising the cinematic motion of the family’s home videos, the Super-8 film stills have been newly digitised and magnified, with select scenes running full-bleed across double-page spreads. Meanwhile, Sultan’s photographs of his parents as they go about their daily lives – against the quintessential backdrop of the Reagan-era American dream – are supplemented with previously unpublished images. Most significantly, the book honours Sultan as the oft-hailed ‘King of Colour Photography’." (from the publisher)