Description:
1st Edition
Since 1988, Larry Sultan returned time and again to photograph on porn sets in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley. But The Valley is by no means a documentary on porn filmmaking. Rather, it is a dense series of pictures of middle-class homes invaded by the porn industry. Sultan's lens focuses on pedestrian details--a piece of half-eaten pie, dirty linens in a heap, "actors" taking a break--that offer clues to a bizarre other-world. The lush and intricate images adroitly play with artifice and reality, adding up to rich, elliptical narratives that circle around the concepts of "home" and "desire." These images of homes and gardens, porn actors and film crews, studio and location shootings are an ambiguous meditation on suburbia and its trappings, family and transgression, loss and desire, the utopias and dystopias of middle-class lifestyle.
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Scalo
Condition: Very good
Book Size: 35 x 30cm
Pages: 127
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 3-908247-79-9
Description:
1st Edition
Since 1988, Larry Sultan returned time and again to photograph on porn sets in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley. But The Valley is by no means a documentary on porn filmmaking. Rather, it is a dense series of pictures of middle-class homes invaded by the porn industry. Sultan's lens focuses on pedestrian details--a piece of half-eaten pie, dirty linens in a heap, "actors" taking a break--that offer clues to a bizarre other-world. The lush and intricate images adroitly play with artifice and reality, adding up to rich, elliptical narratives that circle around the concepts of "home" and "desire." These images of homes and gardens, porn actors and film crews, studio and location shootings are an ambiguous meditation on suburbia and its trappings, family and transgression, loss and desire, the utopias and dystopias of middle-class lifestyle.
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Scalo
Condition: Very good
Book Size: 35 x 30cm
Pages: 127
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 3-908247-79-9