Jim
Goldberg (born 1953) is an American photographer (member of
Magnum Photos) and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth
collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise
outside-the-mainstream populations.
Jim
Goldberg is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and
Crafts and a member of Magnum Photos. He has been exhibiting for over
30 years and his innovative use of image and text make him a landmark
photographer of our times. He began to explore experimental
storytelling and the potentials of combining image and text with
“Rich and Poor”, (1977-85), where he juxtaposed the residents of
welfare hotel rooms with the upper class and their elegantly
furnished home interiors to investigate the nature of American myths
about class, power, and happiness. In "Raised by Wolves”
(1985-95), he worked closely with and documented runaway teenagers in
San Francisco and Los Angeles to create a book and exhibition that
combined original photographs, text, home movie stills, snapshots,
drawings, diary entries as well as single and multi-channel video,
sculpture, found objects, light boxes and other 3-D elements. He is
currently working on two books on migration in Europe to be published
in 2009 and 2010 by Steidl. He is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery
in New York and the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.
His
work is in numerous private and public collections including NYMOMA,
SFMOMA, Whitney, Getty, LACMA, Corcoran, MFA Boston, Hallmark
Collection, The High Museum, Library of Congress, MFA Houston,
National Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jim
Goldberg’s fashion, editorial and advertising work has appeared in
numerous publications including W, Details, Flaunt, The New York
Times Magazine, Esquire, Rebel, GQ,The New Yorker, and Dazed and
Confused. He lives and works in San Francisco.
