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2009 EDITION

July 7th - September 13th

Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg

RAISED BY WOLVES

For ten years Jim Goldberg worked closely with and documented runaway teenagers in the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. He expanded upon a style of documentary photography using original photographs, text and a variety of other elements such as home-movie stills, family snapshots, drawings, diary entries and discarded belongings. Goldberg’s work tells profoundly human stories, looking at the beauty and complexity of human life that persists, despite pervasive forms of social and spiritual poverty. This oeuvre documents the complex ways that people struggle to affirm their dignity and integrity when social circumstance, time and situation work against them. Indeed, the life and death of Tweeky Dave, the protagonist of this work, seem to be a metaphor for the inevitable decline of a society which offers to its youth no other ideal or religion than the act of consuming.


www.magnumphotos.com/jimgoldberg

Jim Goldberg is represented by the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York, the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco and by Magnum Photos.

Framing by Circad, Paris.

Jim Goldberg

Born in 1953 in United States.

Lives and works in San Francisco.


Jim Goldberg is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts and a member of Magnum Photos. He began to explore experimental storytelling and the potentials of combining image and text with Rich and Poor, (1977-85), where he 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.

His work is in numerous private and public collections including New York MOMA, San Fransisco MOMA, 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.