FINGERPRINT

by Jim Goldberg

Souvent considéré comme le corpus fondateur de Jim Goldberg, Raised By Wolves rassemble dix ans de photographies, de textes, de films et d'installations dans un récit épique de la vie d'adolescents en fuite à San Francisco et Los Angeles à la fin des années 1980 et au début des années 1990. Dans FINGERPRINT, Goldberg expose de nombreux Polaroids inédits du projet, qui ont servi de brouillons pour les photographies qu'il ferait plus tard, ainsi que de cadeaux pour les sujets eux-mêmes. Les images sont parfois griffonnées de texte proclamant les identités, les défis et la résilience des adolescents, et d'autres fois capturent une réalité tranquille de la vie dans la rue. Emballés dans un coffret, les Polaroids en fac-similé de 45 feuilles en vrac créent un compte rendu fraîchement intime et fragmenté de cette œuvre classique.

90 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2021

About the author

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 which investigate the nature of American myths about class, power, and happiness.

A prolific and influential bookmaker, Goldberg’s recent books include Ruby Every Fall, Nazraeli Press (2014); The Last Son, Super Labo (2016); Raised By Wolves Bootleg (2016), Candy, Yale University Press (2017), Darrell & Patricia, Pier 24 Photography (2018) and Gene (2018).

Goldberg has exhibited widely, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; SFMOMA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery. His work is also regularly featured in group exhibitions around the world. Public collections including MoMA, SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty, the National Gallery, LACMA, MFA Boston, The High Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Library of Congress, MFA Houston, National Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Goldberg has received three National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships in Photography, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, among many other honors and grants.

Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts. He is represented by Casemore Gallery in San Francisco. Goldberg joined Magnum Photos in 2002.