Jim Goldberg Explained

Jim Goldberg
Birth Name:James Goldberg
Birth Place:New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Education:San Francisco Art Institute
Partner:Alessandra Sanguinetti
Known For:Fine art photography, educator

Jim Goldberg (born 1953)[1] 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 Photos agency since 2002. He lives and works in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Education

Goldberg studied at San Francisco Art Institute[2] with Larry Sultan, a conceptually oriented photographer.[3]

Artistic career

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 through long-term, in depth collaborations which investigate the nature of American myths about class, power, and happiness.

Goldberg is part of an experimental documentary movement in photography, using a straightforward, cinéma vérité approach, based on a fundamentally narrative understanding of photography. The individuality of the subjects emerges in his works, "forming a context within which the viewer may integrate the unthinkable into the concept of self. Thus portrayed, this terrifying other is restored as a universal."[4]

Goldberg's work was featured with that of Robert Adams and Joel Sternfeld in a 1984 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art entitled "Three Americans"; the exhibition was described as "a show of politically charged and socially conscious images."[5]

His 1985 book Rich and Poor, re-released by Steidl in an expanded edition in 2014, includes photographs of people in their homes along with handwritten comments by them about their lives.[6] For example, the handwriting under the photograph reproduced on the front cover reads "I keep thinking where we went wrong. We have no one to talk to now, however, I will not allow this loneliness to destroy me,— I STILL HAVE MY DREAMS. I would like an elegant home, a loving husband and the wealth I am used to. Countess Vivianna de Bronville." Although the book received one mixed review shortly after publication,[7] other reviews were positive,[8] [9] and it was later selected as one of the greatest photobooks of the 20th century.[6]

The photographs in a 1986 exhibition of Goldberg's The Nursing Home Series were accompanied by handwritten text by the nursing home residents who were the subjects of the photographs.[10] A review of a 1990 exhibition Shooting Back: Photography by and About the Homeless at the Washington Project for the Arts characterized the exhibition as "Issue Art" and characterized Goldberg as "a superior Issue Artist because he's a superior artist."[11]

A major mixed-media exhibition by Goldberg concerning at risk and homeless youth in California entitled Raised by Wolves began traveling in 1995 and was accompanied by a book of the same title.[12] A review of the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art noted that Goldberg made reference to other artists and photographers; used photographs, videos, objects, and texts to convey meaning; and "let his viewers feel, in some corner of their psyches, the lure of abject lowliness, the siren call of pain."[12] Although the accompanying book received one mixed review shortly after publication,[13] it was described as "a heartbreaking novel with pictures",[12] and in The Photobook: A History, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger praised it as "complex and thoughtful."[14]

A 1999 mixed media installation at the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery entitled "57/78/97" explored race relations in the United States, including the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, the 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision, and the year following the passage of California Proposition 209 (1996) concerning affirmative action.[15]

Selected photographs from a series by Goldberg called "Open See," concerning refugees, immigrants, and trafficked people, were first exhibited in San Francisco in 2007.[16] [17] One review stated that the photographs may leave the viewer "paralyzed by uncertainty about what might alleviate the injustices" depicted.[17] Part of the series came to be known as "Open See",[18] and Goldberg's book of that title was published in 2009 by Steidl.

In 2013 Goldberg was an artist in residence at Yale University Art Gallery with Donovan Wylie. They each created a body of work based in New Haven. In Candy, Jim Goldberg, a New Haven native, creates a multilayered photo-novel of aspiration and disillusionment, interspersing Super 8 film stills, images of New Haven's urban landscape, annotated Polaroid portraits, and collaged archival materials to explicate the rise and fall of American cities in the 20th century. Goldberg considers New Haven's quest to become a "model city" of America, contrasting its civic aspirations with its citizens' lived realities.

Goldberg is a Professor Emeritus of Photography and Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts[19] from 1987-2014 and has been a full member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2006.[20] He lives and works in the Bay Area. His 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.

Personal life

, Goldberg lives on a farm in Sonoma County, California with his partner Alessandra Sanguinetti, his daughter Ruby, and Sanguinetti's daughter Cat.[21]

Publications

Publications by Goldberg

Publications paired with others

Publications with contributions by Goldberg

Awards and grants

Exhibitions

Collections

Goldberg's work is held in the following public collections:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zhengová . Linda . 2021-08-01 . Jim Goldberg: Fingerprint . 2024-03-26 . GUP Magazine . en-US.
  2. Web site: Jim Goldberg . Peter MacGill.
  3. News: This Is What Wealth Really Looks Like. The New York Times. 24 July 2014. 23 April 2016. Kennedy. Randy.
  4. Art Forum, Summer 1987
  5. Grundberg, Andy. A new era of image-making. The New York Times, 30 December 1984. Accessed 29 January 2010.
  6. Roth, Andrew, editor. The book of 101 books: seminal photographic books of the 20th century. New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001. .
  7. Depietro, Thomas. A touch of two classes. The New York Times, 30 March 1986. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  8. Eder, Richard. Ex libris. Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1985.
  9. Groenfeldt, Tom. An art with depth of field. The Record (New Jersey), 17 January 1986.
  10. Pincus, Robert L. 'Invisible People' come to life in stirring photographic show. San Diego Union, April 3, 1988.
  11. Richard, Paul. Making an issue of it - in the post-postmodern look, the power's in the message. Washington Post, 24 September 1990.
  12. Richard, Paul. Finding beauty in desperation - at the Corcoran, Jim Goldberg's stirring photos of runaway children. Washington Post, 18 September 1995.
  13. Woodward, Richard B. Runaways. The New York Times, 15 October 1995. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  14. Parr, Martin, and Gerry Badger. The photobook: a history. Volume II. London & New York: Phaidon, 2006. Page 303. .
  15. Miller, Alicia. Jim Goldberg at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.
  16. Stephen Wirtz Gallery. Jim Goldberg. The new Europeans. Exhibition dates: October 4 - November 10, 2007. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  17. Baker, Kenneth. Jim Goldberg's brave images are more than just art. San Francisco Chronicle, 03 November 2007. Accessed 24 January 2010.
  18. O'Hagan, Sean. Jim Goldberg: Open See. The Observer, 1 November 2009. Accessed 24 January 2010.
  19. California College of the Arts. Faculty. Jim Goldberg. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  20. Magnum Photos. Jim Goldberg. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  21. News: O'Hagan . Sean . 2023-10-01 . 'I am the witness and the subject': Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg on telling his own story . en-GB . The Observer . 2023-12-24 . 0261-3077.
  22. News: Ackerberg . Erica . 2023-09-29 . An American Life in a Million Glances . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-09-30 . 0362-4331.
  23. Web site: Williams . Megan . 2023-09-25 . Jim Goldberg's photo book is a cinematic view of life . 2023-09-30 . Creative Review . en-UK.
  24. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1980.pdf
  25. Web site: Jim Goldberg / MATRIX 106 . University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum.
  26. Web site: http://www.artnet.com/artists/jim-goldberg/biography . ARTNET.
  27. [John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]
  28. Web site: A Completely True Work of Fiction: Jim Goldberg's Raised By Wolves . Magnum Photos.
  29. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1990.pdf
  30. Web site: Jim Goldberg . WideWalls.
  31. Web site: FINDING AID FOR THE FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE . Center For Creative Photography.
  32. Art Matters. Past grantees. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  33. Web site: https://pacemacgill.com/biography.php?artist=Jim%20Goldberg . Pace / Macgill Gallery.
  34. Fleishhacker Foundation. Eureka Fellowship program recipients. Accessed 27 January 2010.
  35. Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. 1996 arts and culture grants. Accessed 27 January 2010.
  36. Web site: Jim Goldberg (San Francisco, USA) . Superlabo.
  37. Open Society Institute OSI Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grant winners announced. 15 March 2007. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  38. Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Jim Goldberg, winner of the HCB Award 2007. 13 June 2007. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  39. News: Deutsche Börse prize for photography goes to chronicler of displaced people. 26 April 2011 . 26 April 2011 . Sean . O'Hagan . Sean O'Hagan (journalist) . . London .
  40. Web site: Canadian Art Chronology . Canadian Art Concordia.
  41. News: Kennedy . Randy . This Is What Wealthy Looked Like . New York Times . 24 July 2014 . 24 July 2014.
  42. Web site: Jim Goldberg . Orgeon Visual Arts.
  43. Web site: INTERNATIONAL MEETING PLACE PORTFOLIO REVIEW . Foto Fest . 8 March 2012.
  44. Johnson, Ken. Art in review; Jim Goldberg -- 'Two Stories'. The New York Times, 7 January 2005. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  45. Stephen Bulger Gallery. Jim Goldberg. In the open see. September 10 - October 29, 2005. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  46. O'Hagan, Sean. Sons, lovers ... and weird things about mothers. The Observer, 12 July 2009. Accessed 30 January 2010.
  47. Mesplé, Louis. «Open See»: le photographe et les migrants racontent l'histoire. Rue 89, 31 May 2009. Accessed 24 January 2010.
  48. Web site: Here .

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