Evidence
Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel
1977
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Evidence
Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel
1977
Greenbrae: Clatworthy Colorvues
Unpaginated [72 pages]
23.5 × 25 cm

A brilliantly orchestrated sequence of fifty-nine uncaptioned photographs, sourced from American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, forms the core of this seminal photobook by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Preceded by a complete list of the contributing institutions and followed by an essay by Robert F. Forth, Dean of the California College of Arts and Crafts, reflecting on the relationship between the circumstantial and the evident, the volume stands as a landmark of paraphotographic and self-reflexive practice.


 


Constructed entirely from anonymous documentary images, Evidence generates a non-linear narrative that questions photography's capacity to record and authenticate truth. Each image carries an enigmatic charge, suggesting a punctum that exists beyond the frame and opening onto a liminal zone between the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. Although assembled from archival sources, Evidence resists the conventions of the archive, transforming found material into one of the most innovative and enduring photography-based projects of the 1970s. As Martin Parr observed in The Photobook: A History, it is "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

Greenbrae: Clatworthy Colorvues
Unpaginated [72 pages]
23.5 × 25 cm

A brilliantly orchestrated sequence of fifty-nine uncaptioned photographs, sourced from American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, forms the core of this seminal photobook by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Preceded by a complete list of the contributing institutions and followed by an essay by Robert F. Forth, Dean of the California College of Arts and Crafts, reflecting on the relationship between the circumstantial and the evident, the volume stands as a landmark of paraphotographic and self-reflexive practice.

 

Constructed entirely from anonymous documentary images, Evidence generates a non-linear narrative that questions photography's capacity to record and authenticate truth. Each image carries an enigmatic charge, suggesting a punctum that exists beyond the frame and opening onto a liminal zone between the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. Although assembled from archival sources, Evidence resists the conventions of the archive, transforming found material into one of the most innovative and enduring photography-based projects of the 1970s. As Martin Parr observed in The Photobook: A History, it is "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

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A brilliantly orchestrated sequence of fifty-nine uncaptioned photographs, sourced from American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, forms the core of this seminal photobook by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Preceded by a complete list of the contributing institutions and followed by an essay by Robert F. Forth, Dean of the California College of Arts and Crafts, reflecting on the relationship between the circumstantial and the evident, the volume stands as a landmark of paraphotographic and self-reflexive practice.

 

Constructed entirely from anonymous documentary images, Evidence generates a non-linear narrative that questions photography's capacity to record and authenticate truth. Each image carries an enigmatic charge, suggesting a punctum that exists beyond the frame and opening onto a liminal zone between the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. Although assembled from archival sources, Evidence resists the conventions of the archive, transforming found material into one of the most innovative and enduring photography-based projects of the 1970s. As Martin Parr observed in The Photobook: A History, it is "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

Greenbrae: Clatworthy Colorvues
Unpaginated [72 pages]
23.5 × 25 cm

A brilliantly orchestrated sequence of fifty-nine uncaptioned photographs, sourced from American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, forms the core of this seminal photobook by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Preceded by a complete list of the contributing institutions and followed by an essay by Robert F. Forth, Dean of the California College of Arts and Crafts, reflecting on the relationship between the circumstantial and the evident, the volume stands as a landmark of paraphotographic and self-reflexive practice.

 

Constructed entirely from anonymous documentary images, Evidence generates a non-linear narrative that questions photography's capacity to record and authenticate truth. Each image carries an enigmatic charge, suggesting a punctum that exists beyond the frame and opening onto a liminal zone between the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. Although assembled from archival sources, Evidence resists the conventions of the archive, transforming found material into one of the most innovative and enduring photography-based projects of the 1970s. As Martin Parr observed in The Photobook: A History, it is "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

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A brilliantly orchestrated sequence of fifty-nine uncaptioned photographs, sourced from American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, forms the core of this seminal photobook by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Preceded by a complete list of the contributing institutions and followed by an essay by Robert F. Forth, Dean of the California College of Arts and Crafts, reflecting on the relationship between the circumstantial and the evident, the volume stands as a landmark of paraphotographic and self-reflexive practice.

 

Constructed entirely from anonymous documentary images, Evidence generates a non-linear narrative that questions photography's capacity to record and authenticate truth. Each image carries an enigmatic charge, suggesting a punctum that exists beyond the frame and opening onto a liminal zone between the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. Although assembled from archival sources, Evidence resists the conventions of the archive, transforming found material into one of the most innovative and enduring photography-based projects of the 1970s. As Martin Parr observed in The Photobook: A History, it is "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

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