{"product_id":"9781935202820","title":"Larry Sultan \u0026 Mike Mandel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe artistic collaboration between Larry Sultan (1946-2009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) began in 1972, when they were both graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the next 30 years, they created 20 photographic projects: two publications (including the landmark book \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e); two exhibitions; the film, \u003ci\u003eJPL\u003c\/i\u003e; three public commissions; and 12 billboard series displayed on sites throughout California and the continental U.S. This collaboration enabled Sultan and Mandel to evolve a seemingly authorless style; most of their works adapted found imagery from archives or from popular media, neutralizing the intended commercial or documentary content by uncovering and emphasizing the inherent banality.\u003cbr\u003eThis substantial overview surveys Sultan and Mandel's 30 years of collaboration beginning with early billboard projects investigating themes of Californian culture and wealth, such as \"Oranges on Fire\" and \"Cornucopia\", based on a 1955 hand-tinted postcard of a model posing amid ripe oranges, and bearing the tagline: \"California Gold Fills the Horn of Plenty To Overflowing.\" Their billboard projects continue with the tongue in cheek \u003ci\u003eTies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhose News?\u003c\/i\u003e in which the secondary title, \"Whose News Abuses You?\" is slyly imbedded in the image; and the duo's final billboard collaboration, \u003ci\u003eTrouble Spots\u003c\/i\u003e, a billboard project that used conflated and opposing ideologies in both fictitious and real locations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLarry Sultan and Mike Mandel\u003c\/i\u003e continues this extensive overview by chronicling their work with sourced images in the exhibitions \u003ci\u003eReplaced\u003c\/i\u003e (1975); \u003ci\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/i\u003e (1983); and the publications \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Music in One Evening\u003c\/i\u003e (1974) and \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e (1977). Five critical essays provide further insights on their collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D.A.P.\/Distributed Art Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063889477872,"sku":"9781935202820","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935202820_p0.jpg?v=1763656107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935202820","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}