Evidence (with Signed Letter)

Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel

ISBN 10: 0918290015 / ISBN 13: 9780918290014

Published by Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae and Santa Cruz, 1977

About this Item

hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering., negligible signs of handling to exterior. small faint sticker ghost to front free endpaper. no real flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears, creases. strong binding. a well preserved copy.; contains a letter signed by mike mandel on clatworthy colorvues letterhead, dated 2/2/80, thanking the prior owner for the order, and stating that this was one of the last copies.; unpaginated. b/w photographs throughout. afterword by robert f. forth.; important book. scarce thus. Size: Oblong 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 24149

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evidence (with Signed Letter)
• Publisher: Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae and Santa Cruz
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0918290015
• ISBN 13: 9780918290014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
• Book Type: Artists' Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography Two

About this title

Synopsis

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.