Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence

Sultan and Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of a hundred 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 59 of the best, they published these images with the care you would expect to find in a high‑quality art photography book, issuing them in 1977 in a simple, limited‑edition volume titled 'Evidence'. Long established as a photobook classic and a seminal example of conceptual photography, Evidence was reissued as a facsimile edition in 2004 by D.A.P. with a new spread of images and a group of black‑and‑white illustrations selected by the artists from an archive of photographs that were not included in the original book, plus a commissioned essay by Sandra Phillips. D.A.P. now reprints the 2004 edition of 'Evidence', making available to a general readership a truly pioneering and canonical photobook.