One might say that director, author, and photographer Larry Yust has been creating visual encyclopedias for years – that’s how exactly he documents the streets. There might be something to that theory: His father, Walter Yust, was once an editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica and passed the reference book gene on to his son. Yust’s passion for film also came courtesy of his father, who gave him a Super8 camera when he was a teenager. Larry Yust was born is Philadelphia and grew up in the suburbs of New York and Chicago. He studied Theater Arts at Stanford University and was an officer