Summertime in America, Beneath the Surface
Briefly

From the early 1970s to the early '80s, the conceptual artist and photographer Larry Sultan repeatedly outfitted himself with goggles, an underwater camera and a hand-held flash and submerged himself in community pools across the San Francisco Bay Area.Influenced by the images he found in a Red Cross manual, he photographed underwater scenes of parents teaching their children to swim, lone swimmers treading water and people playing and holding their breath under the surface.
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