{"id":150180,"date":"2025-03-22T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/5-decades-ago-larry-sultan-mike-mandel-redefined-photography\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:13:12","slug":"5-decades-ago-larry-sultan-mike-mandel-redefined-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=150180","title":{"rendered":"5 decades ago, Larry Sultan &#038; Mike Mandel redefined photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/25-fools-hill-2024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Half a century later, <em>Evidence <\/em>has become canon without losing any of its charge. The questions it poses of photography\u2019s role as a tool of propaganda to uphold systems of power feels\u00a0all too timely in our brave new world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/larry-sultan-pictures-from-home-1980s-surreal-scenes-of-socal-suburbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Sultan<\/a> and Mike Mandel, native Los Angelenos who first met as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973, had built a collaborative practice that combined the subversive spirit of the Pictures Generation with DIY spirit of punk, casually upending entrenched hierarchies of Western cultural hegemony.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLarry and I weren\u2019t part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/the-radical-history-of-80s-san-francisco-in-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Francisco<\/a> tradition that includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/raucous-portrait-beat-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beat generation<\/a>, and that\u2019s one of the reasons we found each other,\u201d says Mandel. \u201cWe were of an enlightened cynicism standpoint, instead of the romantic appreciation of history.\u201d They were drawn to a new wave of photobooks like <em>American Snapshot<\/em>, <em>Champion Pig<\/em>, and <em>Wisconsin Death Trip <\/em>that centred personal and community photographic histories. Mandel and Sultan wanted to participate and recognised the moment they were in: the emergence of a West Coast citadel of neoliberalism.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere were all these organisations looking to build the future through applied technology located in California: Lockheed Aircraft, Northrop Aircraft, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Stanford Research Institute. We saw ourselves within the context of how photography was developing,\u201d says Mandel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a century later, Evidence has become canon without losing any of its charge. The questions it poses of photography\u2019s role as a tool of propaganda to uphold systems of power feels\u00a0all too timely in our brave new world. 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