Photographer Larry Sultan dies at 63

Larry Sultan, taken by his wife Kelly.

One of the leading names in contemporary photography died yesterday at age of 63. RIP.

From the NY Times:

Larry Sultan, a highly influential California photographer whose 1977 collaboration, “Evidence” — a book made up solely of pictures culled from vast industrial and government archives — became a watershed in the history of art photography, died on Sunday at his home in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 63.
The cause was cancer, said his wife, Katherine, who is known as Kelly.

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