MIKE MANDEL & LARRY SULTAN | Evidence

Second edition (2003) of the iconic conceptual photobook.
Martin Parr described the first edition in The Photobook: A History, as "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks."

Boards are clean and binding is tight. Pages have very minor toning at some edges. Dust jacket is moderately scratched and marked. Fine book in good + jacket. Very good overall condition. See photos for details.

"In 1977 photographers Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and a hundred other corporations, American government agencies, and educational, medical and technical institutions. They were looking for photographs that were made and used as transparent documents and purely objective instruments--as evidence, in short. Selecting 50 of the best, they printed these images with the care you would expect to find in a high-quality art photography book, publishing them in a simple, limited-edition volume titled Evidence. The concept for the book was clear: select photographs intended to be used as objective evidence and show that it is never that simple.

Now an undisputed classic in the photo world, considered a seminal harbinger of conceptual photography, Evidence is nearly impossible to find. This new edition is being published in recognition of the project's continued relevance, and will contain a facsimile copy of the original book plus a newly commissioned scholarly essay by Sandra Phillips of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, this edition will include a new spread of images and a group of black-and-white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book.” - from the publisher

The first edition was selected by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger for "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and by Roth for "The Book of 101 Books.

10.1 x 9.3 inches