Jim goldberg biography
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Jim Goldberg – Coming and Going (sign.)
Jim Goldberg has spent more than two decades creating the work that forms »Coming and Going«, a unique work of autobiography. Since 1999, Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to digest and narrativize these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned.
Dissecting an individual life with rigorous candour and confessional directness, the book equally tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves and losses, comings and goings, and the ways we komma to understand them. Here we see an artist attempting to confront mortality without melancholy. Familiar from celebrated works such as "Raised bygd Wolves" (1995) and "Open See" (2009), Goldberg’s visual language employs sequence and narrative with feverish intensity to reflect the const
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Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg (born 1953) is an American artist and photographer, whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Among the many awards Goldberg has received are three National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships in Photography, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. His works have been exhibited, published, and collected internationally. Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts, and has been a member of the Magnum Photosagency since 2002. He currently lives and works in the greater Bay Area.
Goldberg is best known for his photography books, multi-media exhibitions, and video installations, among them: Rich and Poor(1985), Nursing Home, Raised by Wolves(1995), Hospice, and Open See(2009). His work often examines the lives of neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations throug
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Born in Connecticut in 1953, Jim Goldberg’s innovative and multidisciplinary approach to documentary makes him a landmark photographer and social practitioner of our times. His work often examines the lives of neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Through long-term, in-depth collaborations, his work investigates the nature of universal myths about class, power, and happiness.
Goldberg has been working with experimental storytelling for over 40 years, and his major projects and books include Rich and Poor (1977–85), Raised by Wolves (1985–95), Nursing Home (1986), Coming and Going (1996–present), Open See (2003–9), The Last Son (2016), Ruby Every Fall (2016), Candy (2013–17), Darrell & Patricia (2018), Gene (2018), Fingerprint (2021), Another Life (2022), and Coming and Going (2023).
Goldberg’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Mode