Photography, Baseball, and Bubblegum: The Story Behind Photo Artist Cards by Mandel

Emuseum Notes

Quotation by Artist on the verso of the card reads as: Photography and Baseball are two of my most favorite American sports. I remember that one of the first times that I used a camera was to photograph my tiny-mite baseball team with my new Kodak Brownie. During the game, our catcher, going back for a foul ball, stepped on my Brownie and cleated it to pieces. He missed the catch, but my film was O.K.!

Emuseum Notes

In
1975, Mandel created a set of 134 cards featuring photo artists, critics,
historians, and curators. These were packaged in random groups of ten cards
with bubble gum, requiring those who sought a complete set to trade cards with
one another. The artist says that he conceived the project as a commentary on
how the fine-art photography community was becoming part of the larger art
world and consumer culture as a whole. From a distance of forty years, the
cards now represent the icons of twentieth-century photography, including
prominent  figures associated with the
medium in New Mexico.

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