Eve Sonneman 1975

This is Mike Mandel's baseball card of Eve Sonneman. It's a photograph, and it's got that gritty, newsprint kind of feel. There's something about the way the greys all blend together here, like an old memory. The shadow of the bat on the brick wall. It's a gesture frozen in time. You can almost feel the weight of the bat and the tension in her arms. The texture of her sweater is visible in all its glorious detail. I keep thinking about how this relates to other artists like John Baldessari, who used photography to challenge conventional ways of seeing. It's not just a portrait, it's about deconstructing the image and questioning what we think we know. There's always room for a new way of seeing, and that's what makes art so exciting.