Design
When Art Photography and Old Baseball Cards Collide
One artist is merging two very different worlds and coming up with delightfully strange results.
There’s not a lot of overlap between William Eggleston and Dusty Baker. Eggleston captured the most mundane aspects of life in the South with color film during the 1970s while Baker was making a name for himself as a young outfielder for the Atlanta Braves. Through Mark Giorgione’s art, their two worlds now collide.
In one piece from Giorgione’s Collage Baseball project, a young Baker posing for his 1974 Topps card appears alone inside a bleak portrait of downtown Atlanta seen through Eggleston’s lens. Combining the commercially simplistic with artistically banal, all of Giorgione’s pieces have their own, delightfully strange new energy.