2012 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Mike Mandel

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom A

Invited Panel

Mike Mandel has published nine photo-based books since the early 70's, including Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971, Seven Never Before Published Portraits of Edward Weston, 1974, the Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, 1975, and Making Good Time, 1989. In 1977 Larry Sultan and Mandel authored Evidence, a photo narrative comprised only of found images that has been recognized as a seminal artists' book and a precursor to subsequent postmodern strategies of photographic practice. Evidence was re-published in 2004 by D.A.P. In 1989 Mandel authored Making Good Time, counter pointing photographic efficiency studies made for industry by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the early part of the 20th century with his own time/motion photographs. Over a period of thirty years Mandel has designed both temporary (billboards) and permanent (tile mosaic) artworks specifically for public sites. Mike Mandel has been a recipient of several NEA grants and a Fulbright Fellowship, and currently teaches within the photography program at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.