Pictures from Home Ciáran Óg Arnold and a hidden parent was

and a hidden parent was required to hold the child still

but these images have grown not only in photographic importance

Belongs to Joe is a photographic essay

Each volume shares the same dimensions but each is designed as an independent and unique work in itself

in this series

Pictures from Home Ciáran Óg Arnold and a hidden parent wasFirst 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