Since 1988, Larry Sultan has returned time and again to photograph on porn sets in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley--the Silicon(e) Valley of the porn industry. 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.
I had the pleasure of viewing an exhibition of Sultan's work at the San Francisco MOMA earlier last year and have been fascinated by the photographs in The Valley ever since. Never before in my life have I seen a mixture of fascination, disgust, and silent respect directed toward a single body of work. We all know the porn industry exists but this is the first time that many of us have seen it through a purely... MORE
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