When you can turn that into this, you turn yourself from taking to making. Take pictures, or make art. Image, or imagine.
That stuff, that space, has to be translated into this thing, this surface.
Callahan Poetry

To make a statement would be against my nature.
Shane Lavalette / Journal / Mike Mandel: Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards
Shane Lavalette / Journal / Mike Mandel: Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards.
June 14, 2008 – 11:24 am
About two years ago, I mentioned my first real encounter with the work of Mike Mandel. At that time, Mike sat in for a class that Bill Burke was teaching and talked about his career. One of the early projects that he discussed was his set of Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards (1975), a collection of portraits of photographers as baseball players with their “stats” on the back. These cards have since become collector’s items in the photography community but rarely do you see a complete set.

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