Mike Mandel

Mike Mandel (born 1950) is an American conceptual artist and photographer.[1] According to his artist profile, his work "questions the meaning of photographic imagery within popular culture and draws from snapshots, advertising, news photographs, and public and corporate archives."[2]

Most of the publications Mandel has been involved with have been self-published: his own, his early conceptual collaborations with Larry Sultan, and his later collaborations with Chantal Zakari. He is best known for Evidence (1977), a book of found photographs he and Sultan assembled, regarded as "one of the most influential photography titles of the past 50 years";[3][4] and for his Baseball Photographer Trading Cards (1975), a set of baseball cards with 134 different photographers and curators posing as ball players.[1]

Mandel has had a solo exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and his work is in the permanent collections of major institutions.

  1. ^ a b Jobey, Liz (22 January 2016). "'The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards', by Mike Mandel". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Mike Mandel: Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Spring 2016". Harvard University. Accessed 25 May 2017
  3. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (2 May 2017). "Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan review – when Mom and Dad lived the dream". The Observer. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  4. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (9 May 2017). "Human traffic: photos of people in their cars are a window to a lost world". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 May 2017.