Backyard, West Valley Studio
A sun-drenched suburban backyard is transformed into a makeshift film set, where the mundane trappings of domestic life—patio furniture, manicured grass, and a modest home—become the backdrop for an unseen production. Sultan's sharp yet intimate eye captures the tension between the ordinary and the performative, blurring the line between private space and commercial fantasy. The rich, saturated colors of the chromogenic print heighten the surreal quality of the scene, imbuing the everyday landscape with a sense of quiet unease.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
November 7, 2013
Estimate: $3,000 to $5,000
Artists in conversation
Gregory Crewdson
American · b. 1962
Crewdson similarly uses chromogenic prints to document suburban American spaces that blur the boundary between staged cinematic production and everyday domestic reality, creating that same tension between the ordinary and the performative Sultan captures here.
Joel Sternfeld
American · b. 1944
Sternfeld shares Sultan's use of rich saturated color photography to document American suburban and domestic landscapes, finding the surreal and quietly unsettling within mundane everyday scenes rendered with warm luminous tones.
Jeff Wall
Canadian · b. 1946
Wall consistently explores the intersection of staged photography and documentary realism, constructing carefully crafted color images of ordinary spaces and everyday life that carry the same tension between artifice and authentic domestic observation found in Sultan's work.
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