Pictures From Home while walking in the city

while walking in the city

away from the story of power

Here hundreds of girls and women with thousands of feet of hair walk the runway and have their lovingly groomed hair measured by gloved judges

From the local markets

Phillip van Niekerk

Pictures From Home while walking in the cityFirst published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultans 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, Sultans own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary