Betty Hahn (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Artist
Mike Mandel
(American, born 1950)
Printer
Mike Roberts
Date1975
Mediumphoto-offset lithography
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 2 1/8 in. (7.9 × 5.4 cm)
Support: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (8.9 × 6.4 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 number2015.27.2
DescriptionArtist is posed outdoors, wearing New York Yankees baseball hat and a baseball glove as well as long pants and a long-sleeved jacket. She is standing and bent over toward the viewer as if to scoop up the baseball in front of her with her gloved hand. Her facial expression is one of concentration on getting the ball.eMuseum Notes
Quotation by Artist on the verso of the card reads as:
1. Statement is epitaph
2. Don't get mad. Get even.
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.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- baseball
- gum
- collecting cards
- artists
- photographers
