Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan

Happy Birthday, Larry Sultan

On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/happy-birthday-larry-sultan.html?currentPage=all

On this day in 1946, one of photo history’s greatest shooters was born: Larry Sultan, who died in 2009. In 1977, Sultan published “Evidence,” with Mike Mandel, a hugely influential conceptual photo book that consisted of reproduced images from industrial and government archives. For the rest of his career Sultan would create projects that bridged the realms of fictional and documentary photography