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"ARTHUR SIEGEL" CARD #15

"Mike Mandel - 1975 Baseball Photographer Trading Cards"

Description: Super rare offering of this highly collectible difficult to find trading card.

Please see scans showing both the front and rear of card.

"First edition card, first and only printing. Photographs by Mike Mandel. Texts, statistics and quotes by the respective artists printed on verso. Each card 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. Lithographic reproductions printed by Mike Roberts, Berkeley, California. The cards were originally packaged with sticks of chewing gum by Topps Chewing Gum, Brooklyn, New York. In 1975, Mike Mandel traveled around the U.S. with baseball equipment and uniforms to produce a series of portraits of important and influential photographers, curators, art historians and critics. The resulting cards were, and still are, traded by those in the field."

From the artist - Mike Mandel: "The project satirized the phenomenon of the fine art photography community being consumed by the larger art world and commercial culture. I photographed photographers as if they were baseball players and produced a set of cards that were packaged in random groups of ten, with bubble gum, so that the only way of collecting a complete set was to make a trade. The reverse side for each card enabled the photographer to fill in their own personal data that referred to the information usually included on real baseball cards. In a sense, each photographer's response provides an insight about how they approached their participation."

Condition: Beautiful Mint Condition Card.

Provenance: Singles have been compiled from packs many years ago by my mother, Marilyn Blaisdell who had a memorabilia shop (San Francisciana) located in the historic Cliff House during the 1970s.

Packaged securely inside a soft sleeve and a brand new rigid top-loader.

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