Tom Barrow, No 60 from “The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards”
Artist
Mike Mandel
(American, born 1950)
Printer
Mike Roberts
Date1975
MediumPhoto-offset lithography
Dimensions3 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.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.
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.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- baseball
- gum
- collecting cards
- artists
- photographers
- hats
- shadows
