Clatworthy Colorvues collection

Michael (Mike) Mandel, (b.1950) an American photographer, received a B.A. in 1968 from California State University Northridge and received a master of fine arts degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. He has published nine photo-based books since the early 70’s, including Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971; Seven Never Before Published Portraits of Edward Weston 1974; the Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, 1975; and Making Good Time, 1989. As of 2016, he currently works as a teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Studio Program at Tufts University and artist of large scale mosaic murals.

American photographer Lawrence (Larry) Allen Sultan was born Aug. 13, 1946 in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a master’s degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Sultan taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978-1988 and at the California College of the Arts from 1989-2009. Sultan died of cancer on Dec. 13, 2009 in Greenbrae, CA.

Mandel and Sultan began artistically collaborating in 1972 when they were graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute, and over the next 30 years created 20 photographic projects including publications, exhibitions, film, public commissions, and billboards displayed in California and across the U.S. In 1977, Sultan and Mandel authored Evidence, a photo narrative comprised only of found images.