Joel Meyerowitz
1975
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View on museum website →Medium
offset lithograph
Dimensions
image: 8 × 5.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/16 in.) sheet: 8.9 × 6.3 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Sarah Greenough
Accession Number
2015.173.46
Art Historical Context
**Joel Meyerowitz**, a 1975 offset lithograph by Mike Mandel, offers a compact glimpse into mid-1970s photographic portraiture. At just 8 × 5.5 cm (image) on a 8.9 × 6.3 cm sheet, this tiny work—classified as a photograph—invites close inspection, much like a personal snapshot or collectible card. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Department of Photographs (CPH), it exemplifies how artists used reproducible media to make art accessible beyond gallery walls. Offset lithography, the printing technique here, revolutionized image dissemination in the post-war era by enabling precise, cost-effe...
About the Artist
Mike Mandel
Mike Mandel, born in 1950 in Los Angeles and raised in the burgeoning San Fernando Valley amid freeways, billboards, and strip malls, drew early inspiration from this media-saturated landscape. He earned a BA in Philosophy from California State University, Northridge in 1972 before pursuing an MFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, where he met lifelong collaborator Larry S...