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Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.
Larry Sultan
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Larry Sultan
Age: 63 †
Born: 1946
Born: August 13
Died: 2009
Died: December 13
Photographer
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Larry A. Sultan
Lawrence A. Sultan
Lawrence Sultan
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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 instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.
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