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In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies, and educational, medical and technical institutions. They were looking for photographs that were made and used as transparent documents and purely objective instruments – as evidence, in short. Selecting 50 of the best, they printed these images with the care you would expect to find in a high-quality art photography book, publishing them in a simple, limited-edition volume titled Evidence. The concept for the book was clear: select photographs intended to be used as objective evidence and show that it is never that simple. Now an undisputed classic in the photo world, considered a seminal harbinger of conceptual photography, Evidence is nearly impossible to find. This reprint of DAP’s 2004 facsimile edition is being published in recognition of the project’s continued relevance, and will contain a facsimile copy of the original book plus a newly commissioned scholarly essay by Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, this edition will include a new spread of images and a group of black-and-white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book.
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Larry Sultan’s work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life. Mike Mandel teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is a recent visiting lecturer in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard. A retrospective of his work is scheduled for 2017 at SFMOMA.
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In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies, and educational, medical and technical institutions. They were looking for photographs that were made and used as transparent documents and purely objective instruments – as evidence, in short. Selecting 50 of the best, they printed these images with the care you would expect to find in a high-quality art photography book, publishing them in a simple, limited-edition volume titled Evidence. The concept for the book was clear: select photographs intended to be used as objective evidence and show that it is never that simple. Now an undisputed classic in the photo world, considered a seminal harbinger of conceptual photography, Evidence is nearly impossible to find. This reprint of DAP’s 2004 facsimile edition is being published in recognition of the project’s continued relevance, and will contain a facsimile copy of the original book plus a newly commissioned scholarly essay by Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, this edition will include a new spread of images and a group of black-and-white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book.
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ISBN 10: 1942884141
ISBN 13: 9781942884149
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to. Minor shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers. DJ in mylar. Previous owner's lengthy gift inscription in black ink on front endpaper. Tight binding. Volume is in Very Good condition. Seller Inventory # 065428
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Evidence
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good++ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with âstraight" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium, Oblong Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; Unpaginated (about 100 pages); Black dust jacket with title in white lettering; 2017, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers; "Evidence," by Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel. Seller Inventory # SKU-1570AB03903275
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Second Printing; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards with two slightly "bumped" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium, Oblong Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; Unpaginated (about 100 pages); Black dust jacket with title in white lettering; 2017, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers; "Evidence," by Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel. Seller Inventory # SKU-1614AD04804305
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Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence
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Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Expanded edition that includes a new essay and a spread of 18 photographs and supplementary images selected by Mandel and Sultan from their original Evidence archive. Oversized navy cloth covered boards with gilt title to upper cover and spine, in original unclipped dust jacket with "autographed copy" sticker (easily removable). Signed by Larry Sultan on the title page, NOT signed by Mandel. A fine clean tight copy the only mark is Sultan's signature. Fine dust jacket with minor edgewear. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 003963
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Signed by Mike Mandel (only). NEW UNREAD PRISTINE first printing hardcover of the 2017 reprint of this seminal 1977 work. Includes new introduction and afterword. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1721506974739
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Mike Mandel & Larry Sultan: Evidence (Third D.A.P. Reissue Edition, 2017)
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 3rd Edition. 2003/2017. Thrid D.A.P. reissue edition. Originally published in 1977 by Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae, California. Hardcover. Blue cloth-like covered boards, with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, with dust jacket. Photographs from various private and public collections edited by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Includes a list of government agencies, educational institutions and corporations that permitted access to their files. Essay by Sandra S. Philips. Afterword by Robert F. Forth. 92 pp., with 61 duotone plates, 18 black-and-white reproductions printed on a 2-page spread entitled 'Outtakes from Evidence, 1977-2003,' and 7 additional black-and-white reference illustrations. 9-1/4 x 10 inches. This edition went out of print shortly after release. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. Before 1977, artists using photography usually made 'fine art photographs.' Museums and galleries, curators and collectors, increasingly embraced photography as an important medium. The contemporary art world was widening and refining its notions of 'art photography.' While practices and movements within the photographic arts were rapidly expanding and crossing into other media during the 60s and 70s, the constant at this time was that the 'art photograph' (or work of art that incorporated photography) was made by an artist. Many important artists at the time, such as Robert Heinecken, used images from the mass media and other sources as key elements in their cutting-edge works. And, artists such as Ed Ruscha were using photographs in a way that minimized the importance of the individual images (i.e., the photographic images were in service to the larger conceptual work). Then, Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan collaborated to publish 'Evidence,' and changed everything! With a brilliant sensibility for the absurd and a keen awareness of the complexity that the single image possesses when viewed outside its original context, Mandel and Sultan selected photographs from thousands of images that previously existed solely within the boundaries of the industrial, scientific, governmental and other institutional sources from which they were mined. Some of the photographs are hilarious, others are perplexing, but it's in their isolation from their original context that these images take on meanings that address the confluence of industry and corporate mischief, ingenuity and pseudo-science. The resulting book, 'Evidence,' strongly influenced our shifting awareness of 'the photograph' and introduced the importance of the 'found image' in art. The finished and provocative collection forever altered how we view images. Of course, we are now much more aware of multiple meanings images can evoke when viewed outside of a proscribed context. Before 'Evidence,' however, this was not. well, as evident. This book, unlike collections of "snapshot" photographs, forced the viewer to imagine that the larger world was using the camera to document dubious practices and alarming, amusing, and confusing experiments in the name of government. The 'photograph as art' question took on an entirely new perspective, and the world could never [seriously] look back. If borrowed from corporate-speak, a caption for 'Evidence' might be 'a paradigm shift' for photography. [Also included with the book is a copy of the planned introduction by Robert Heinecken, which was subsequently not published in the book, but was printed in the May-June 1977 issue of Afterimage.] From the publisher: "In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan (19462009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) published a book that would radically transform both photography and the photobook canona book described by Martin Parr, in The Photobook: A History, as "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks." Sultan and Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the US Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies and educational, medical and technical institutions. They were looking for photographs that were made and used as transparent documents and purely objective instruments--as evidence, in short. Selecting 59 of the best, they published these images with the care you would expect to find in a high-quality art photography book, issuing them in 1977 in a simple, limited-edition volume titled Evidence. Long established as a photobook classic and a seminal example of conceptual photography, Evidence was reissued as a facsimile edition in 2003 by D.A.P. with a new spread of images and a group of black-and-white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book, plus a commissioned essay by Sandra Phillips. Today both this reissue and the original 1977 publication are exceptionally rare and command high prices. D.A.P. now reprints the 2003 edition of Evidence, making available to a general readership a truly pioneering and canonical photobook.". Seller Inventory # 113179
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