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Swimming 🏊‍♂️ memories of Vrbov Rybnik and Popradske Pleso or Nitra and Moravia River from 1965 to 1980

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The swimming pool is first and foremost a communal space. "The swimming pool is your second home," Helgason says. "You are brought up in the swimming pool." There may be only 160, or so, swimming pools in the entire country (which is roughly 305 miles wide by 105 miles long), but every one of them is the essential social hub of a community, large or small.

The swimming pool is a public utility — as critical as the grocery store or the bank. "The British go to the pub, the French go to the cafes — in our culture, you meet in the swimming pool," says Helgason. Swimmers come from all walks of life, from farmers to artists to clergymen to celebrities. "You can have 10, 15, 20, 30 people [in the pool] — they're talking about politics and about their lives."

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Snapshot: ‘Swimmers’ by Larry Sultan

The Brooklyn-born photographer used the series to move to a more sensual perception of everyday life


The celebrated Brooklyn-born photographer Larry Sultan (1946-2009) used his “Swimmers” series to move away from his conceptual documentary collaborations based on found materials to a more sensual perception of everyday life. Inspired by a Red Cross swimming manual, his collection of photographs of people learning to swim — taken between 1978 and 1982 — saw him submerge himself in the pool to become “a subject in the drama rather than a witness”.

Sultan’s subjects, photographed in public pools around San Francisco, appear to be unaware of the camera, blurring the lines between the public and the private. 
The relationship between the swimmers and water, especially when breaking the surface of the water at the top of the photographs, lend the images a surreal painterly style. ‘Swimmers’ is at the Galerie Thomas Zande, Cologne, to August 25 galeriezander.com

‘I 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.’




Larry Sultan’s painterly photographs of swimmers Partly to confront his own primal fear of the water, the Californian photographer spent years capturing the sometimes ungainly, sometimes balletic dance of humans learning to swim

Growing up in the suburban Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles, Larry Sultan lived close to a public swimming pool. His regular visits there were undertaken with a degree of trepidation. “I was petrified of water, of deep water, especially,” he recalled in 1980. “When I was 12, I almost drowned in the ocean. Water is the only bit of nature I know that we can’t control, that seems overwhelming when you enter it and are totally immersed in it.”

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