Artist
Larry Sultan (American, 1946–2009)American, 1946–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Tasha's Third Film
- from the series The Valley
Date1998
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsSheet: 30 × 37 1/2 in. (76.2 × 95.3 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 × 39 × 2 in. (842 × 99.1 × 5.1 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 × 39 × 2 in. (842 × 99.1 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan and Stanford Alexander in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her 61st birthday and the Target Collection of American Photography on the occasion of its 30th anniversary
Object number2006.1124
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
a child, Larry Sultan moved with his parents into their dream home in the San
Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles. Decades later, the adult film
industry began renting homes in the area for short shoots, staging explicit
scenes in suburban households that looked very much like Sultan’s own.
Fascinated by the idea of his childhood home and adult films existing in the
same suburb, Sultan began photographing the shoots, creating images of private
domestic interiors momentarily inhabited by strangers. Captured in a quiet
moment of boredom between scenes, Tasha lounges while other actors perform
outside.
Provenance[Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia—Selections from the Museum’s Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 21, 2018–February 3, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Copy of the artist signature on linen paper adhered to the backboard, lower right. Unable to locate his signature on recto. See photocopy in accession file.
Printed label on verso: "STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY / 49 GEARY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 / Larry Sultan / Tasha's Third Film, 1999 / chromogenic print / 30 x 40 inches / edition 10 of 10"
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