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Paige Pinnell (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Paige Pinnell (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Paige Pinnell (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)

Paige Pinnell (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 number2015.27.3
DescriptionSubject is outdoors, facing forward in a position as if he had just thrown a baseball toward viewer with his right hand. He is wearing a light-colored shirt with dark sleeves and jeans with a baseball cap on his head bearing a lowercase “a”. On his left arm is a watchband and on his left hand a baseball glove. Artist has shoulder-length hair and a long moustache. In the background is a building, a walkway, and hollyhocks.
Text Entries
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.!
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.
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