Mandel, Mike

Mike Mandel has been a practicing artist since receiving a master of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley during a period of expansion and transformation of the landscape that included the appearance of billboards, strip malls, and miles of freeways. He has published several photo-based books, 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).