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Evidence is the result of a two-year investigation of over two million archive photographs. The result is a photographic narrative comprised only of images selected from corporate and institutional archives (primarily on the west coast) including government departments, the military, scientific research establishments, law enforcement agencies (Bechtel, TRW, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Aeronutronic Ford, United Technologies, and the Los Angeles Police Department are but a few examples). A project by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
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“No device more effectively generates the effect of a doubling or bending of time than the work of art, a strange kind of event whose relation to time is plural. The artwork is made or designed by an individual or a group of individuals at some moment, but it also points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, perhaps, or to a prior artifact, or to an origin outside of time, in divinity. At the same time it points forward to all its future recipients who will activate and reactivate it as a meaningful event. The work of art is a message whose sender and destination are constantly shifting…”
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“The backdrop against which art now stands out is a particular state of society. What an installation, a performance, a concept or a mediated image can do is to mark a possible or real shift with respect to the laws, the customs, the measures, the mores, the technical and organizational devices that define how we must behave and how we may relate to each other at a given time and in a given place. What we look for in art is a different way to live, a fresh chance at coexistence.”
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“I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another… The writer… can put whatever he wants in there. What’s important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit… The black box is meant to change us. If the change will be greater via the use of invented, absurd material, so be it.”
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