This book has 250 illustrations (190 in color) and is the first to document the collaborative artwork of Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Five critical essays by Charlotte Cotton, Jonathan Lethem, Connie Lewallen, Carter Ratcliff, and Thomas Wagner provide insights. The San Francisco Art Institute was where they met as graduate students in 1973, and it was there that their prolific artistic collaboration began. During the course of the next twelve years, they created nineteen projects together. Although they both pursued individual projects during this twelve-year span, they still nurtured and developed an intense and focused artistic collaboration. Their publication Evidence has been widely recognised as a seminal photographic book.
Mandel and Sultan’s projects from this era included the following:
– How To Read Music In One Evening, an artists’ book published in 1974
– Evidence, artists’ book released in 1977
– twelve outdoor billboards made up of hand-painted photographs, silkscreen posters, oil paintings and digitally printed posters, created between 1973 and 1983
– the 1980 film JPL
– the 1983 installation Newsroom
Larry Sultan was born in New York in 1946. He died in Greenbrae, California, in 2009. From 1989 to 2009, he was a professor of art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Michael Mandel, born in Los Angeles in 1950, lives and works in Watertown, USA.
German edition published by Walther König in 2012. German, ISBN 978-3865607447, 264 pages, dimensions: 10 x 11.5 x 1.2 inches (25.5 x 30 x 3.2 cm)
