Larry Sultan erzählt von seinen Pornofilm-Kulissen-Fotos:
In 1998, I was doing a lot of editorial work for a number of magazines. Just beginning to make that another way of getting my work out. And this one British magazine called, "Maxim," just somewhat of a trashy magazine, asked me to do, "A Day In The Life of A Porn Studio." I think they had a theme on labor. It was an issue on labor. On interesting jobs. The long and short of it is I flew down to Los Angeles with my wife, and drove to Haven Hirst Street; which is a block away from where I went to high school, and it was very strange to be in that neighborhood.
Drove up to this house where there was a bunch of grip guys saying, "Who are you?" & "What are you doing here?" And I explained. And from that kind of world of nostalgia & the suburbs, into this house where they were shooting pornography, it was really remarkably strange for about 5mins. And then it became quite banal and normal and the shock wore off.
And after I finished shooting, and the magazine story ran, I was thinking for several months that, "This is the perfect way of extending the work I had done on my family in the suburbs." And that while I'm not interested in pornography, I am interested in the darker side of the suburbs and how to make the daily life of the suburbs visible or interesting. So not unlike forensic photograph, a porn set add is a kind of heat, or the audience is willing to project or look at the interior in a special way. A viewer might bring something to someone laying a glass of water down on a counter.
If they know it's a porn studio, everything takes on a bit of intensity or density. Whereas none of us pay that much attention to daily life otherwise. So I started to photograph. I called a few magazines, found contacts; And the hardest thing for a photographer is getting access. It's one of the hardest things. So I worked anyway I could to get access to some of the bigger porn studios and some of the smaller ones. I would bring them 20x24 inch prints after I shot & everyone loves to get photographs. They were stunned that I made them look so beautiful. They said, "Gee, do we do that?" Is that how we look?" Cause I don't photograph, I do portraits. I don't photograph sex scenes or the coarseness of what's usually in front of the camera. I'm doing behind the scenes of the camera.
Re: Meanwhile, in the neighbourhood.
Der ist gut. Diese Bilder habe ich auch neulich in der Chic-Clicks-Ausstellung in Winterthur gesehen.