Larry Sultan, 1946-2009

image© Kelly SultanLarry Sultan has remained an inspiration to me ever since I discovered photography, so it is with much sadness that I pass on today’s news of his death…

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.
Read the full NYTimes obit here.