题 目：Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings / 水过雷声：文选

作 者：Larry Sultan

出 版：Mack，2026

装 帧：平装，320页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：17*23*1 cm

拉里·苏尔坦是二十世纪最重要、最负盛名的摄影师之一，但他毕生对写作的投入却鲜为人知。《水过雷霆》是首部专门探讨苏尔坦将写作广泛用作个人、艺术及教学工具的出版物。所选文章——其中许多此前从未发表——均出自苏尔坦大量的日记与笔记本，涵盖了对其教学与艺术实践的反思、短篇小说草稿、生动的梦境记录以及精雕细琢的散文。其间还穿插了苏尔坦那些雄辩的公开演讲和访谈的摘录，阐明了他在一生中持续探究的问题，并突出了他最著名的几个系列作品——《家的图景》、《证据》（与迈克·曼德尔合作）以及《山谷》——的主题基础。在这些风格各异的文字中，“水”作为一种重要的字面与隐喻力量反复出现。本书标题源自《家的图景》的早期草稿，苏尔坦在其中描述了开始一个新艺术项目的过程：“一切都在运动，从表面飞旋而出，又猛撞向朦胧的形态……似乎不可能在表面上找到任何间隙。”

本书通篇配有来自苏尔坦档案中从未公开过的资料：标注过的接触印样、未采用的镜头、勘景照片、从其搜集的旧照片中挑选的影像，以及书籍草稿模型的版式页。整体而言，《水过雷霆》照亮了苏尔坦非凡的工作方式，并形成了一幅亲密的肖像，展现了一位艺术家对其技艺和周遭世界进行实时思考的过程。

Larry Sultan was one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the twentieth century, but his lifelong commitment to writing is less well known. Water Over Thunder is the first publication devoted to Sultan’s wide-ranging use of writing as a personal, artistic, and pedagogic tool. The selected texts – many unpublished until now – come from Sultan’s numerous journals and notebooks, encompassing reflections on his teaching and art practice, drafts for short stories, vivid dream diaries, and polished essays. Interspersed throughout are extracts from Sultan’s eloquent public lectures and interviews, illuminating the questions he investigated throughout his life and emphasizing the thematic underpinnings of his best known series: Pictures from Home, Evidence (with Mike Mandel), and The Valley. Throughout these various writings, water appears as an important literal and metaphorical force. The book’s title is derived from an early draft of Pictures from Home in which Sultan writes about the process of beginning a new artistic project: ‘Everything is in motion, spinning off of surfaces and slamming against shadowy forms ... it seems impossible to find a break in the surface.’ 

This volume is illustrated throughout with previously unseen materials from Sultan’s archive: marked contact sheets, outtakes, scouting shots, selections from his found photo collection, and layout pages from his book maquettes. As a whole, Water Over Thunder illuminates Sultan’s extraordinary way of working and forms an intimate portrait of an artist thinking through his craft and the world around him in real time.