Paige Pinnell (from the series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards)
Artist
Mike Mandel
(American, born 1950)
Artist
Mike Roberts
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)
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.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.!
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 view
1971
