The presidential election process has begun and various visions of the American Dream are front and center. They are high minded, impassioned and full of virtue. But they are sold as dreams of what the country could be, not what it is.
The photographs of Larry Sultan (1946-2009) also invoke the notion of the American Dream. Sultan’s suburbia, however, is more true to life, which is to say strange, sad, stimulating.
With more than 200 photographs taken over 35 years, “Larry Sultan: Here and Home