Les Krims
Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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Les Krims
197520th century
80 x 55 mm (3.1 x 2.2 in.)
Mike Mandel, American, b. born 1950
The artist’s statement on this work (the entire set of cards) includes: “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. … I designed a reverse side for the card which would allow for each photographer to fill in their own personal data that in a way referred to the information usually included on real baseball cards.”
- baseball
- baseball cards
- costume - Artifacts worn or carried for warmth, protection, embellishment, or symbolic purposes. [May 1998 lead-in term added, "apparel (costume).]
- photographer portraits
- photographers
- satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
- sports - Use for games that involve a reasonable degree of individual skill and physical prowess. [June 1993 related term added. March 1993 scope note changed; related terms added; descriptor moved. February 1991 scope note added; alternate term added.]
- image Dimensions: 80 x 55 mm (3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
No open access image available
Mike Mandel, American, b. born 1950 . Les Krims, 1975. From The Baseball Photographer Trading Cards. Halftone offset lithographic reproduction of photograph on card-stock paper. Image (general for group) : 80 x 56 mm (3.1 x 2.2 in.). Card (general for group) : 89 x 64 mm (3.5 x 2.5 in.). image : 80 x 55 mm (3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.). DAC accession number 2015.3.1.36. Carl S. Miller Endowed Fund, 2015. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .