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 be