Mike Mandel, an American photographer, has published 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. In 1977 Larry Sultan and Mandel authored "Evidence", a photo narrative comprised only of found images that has been recognized as a seminal artists’ book and a precursor to subsequent postmodern strategies of photographic practice. Chantal Zakari is a Turkish-Levantine artist and a recent U.S. citizen. She was trained as a designer and an artist. She published "The Turk & The Jew", in 1998 with Mandel, and in 2005, using a pseudonym, she self-published "webAffairs", a documentary of a web community. In 2010 the couple authored and self-published "The State of Ata" a visual book about contemporary Turkey, and a portrait of the body politic: that of the secular revolutionary hero as well as the Islamic scarf.