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Background information
"Mike MANDEL is best known for his project 'The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards', as well as his collaborations with the late Larry SULTAN. Mike MANDEL employs conceptual structures and social commentary underneath a playful presentation. For 'The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards', Mike MANDEL travelled across the US in 1974, posing 134 photographers and curators as ball players, and photographing them. Participants included famous figures (Ansel ADAMS, Imogen CUNNINGHAM, Harry CALLAHAN, Minor WHITE, Aaron SISKIND, William EGGLESTON, Ed RUSCHA, John Szarkowski) as well as lesser-known artists. Cards were made of each participant, and included “stats” such as height, weight, home, favorite camera and a personal statement. The original cards were sold in packs of ten.
Content
This boxed collection contains facsimiles of Mike MANDEL’s original publications, long out-of-print, including 'The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards', 'Myself: Timed Exposures', 'Seven Never Before Seen Portraits of Edward Weston', plus previously unpublished work and ephemera from the projects, including selected facsimile contact sheets from the baseball photo shoots, 'Motel Postcards', 'People in Cars', 'Mrs. Kilpatric', a letter to Mike MANDEL from Charis Wilson regarding Edward WESTON and a pack of ten of the original 1975 baseball cards." (publisher's note, © J&L, 2015)
Book review
"'Good 70s' is another box of facsimiles filled with hard to find books. Well, that is what I thought, but I was wrong. 'Good 70s' is playful box of conceptual photography with never before seen surprises." (© Alec SOTH)About the photographer, Mike MANDEL (b. 1950)
Photo books by Mike MANDEL
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Jason Fulford
- Format
- Box, 25 x 32,5 x 5 cm., 517 pp., 50 color & 250 b/w ills., w/ 135 cards, text language: English