Swimmers as a global problem

as a global problem

Image Credits: Jiazazhi Press

ISBN 978-981-94-1901-2

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Swimmers as a global problemI wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill conceived I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures. Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black and white documentary photographs he found in a Red