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Tom Barrow (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Tom Barrow (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Tom Barrow (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)

Tom Barrow (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)

Artist (American, born 1950)
Date1975
Mediumphoto-offset lithography
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 in. (7.9 × 5.6 cm)
Support: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (8.9 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of Joseph Traugott and Laurel Wallace, 2015
Object number2015.27.1
DescriptionFrontal view of artist’s head and neck seen from a low angle. He is outdoors and squinting in the light, wearing a baseball cap, round eye glasses, and a long moustache, with hair curling down around his ears.
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The photograph was not physically labeled with its accession number due to the double sided nature of the work.
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.
Quotation by Artist on the verso of the card reads as: Once when I was about 12 years old, my Dad took me to Stan & Biggies Steak House in St. Louis - I met Stan the Man and received an 8 X 10” glossy, black and white, signed print as a memory of that day. I can no longer find that photograph.
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