Untitled, from the series "Rich and Poor"
1983 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 14.6 × 21.9 cm (5 3/4 × 8 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.5 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Jim Goldberg
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PhotographyConceptual Art
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None documented
2
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41
Works in Collection
56
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Three Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Jim Goldberg is an American photographer known for large-format documentary work that combines staged portraiture with archival materials and handwritten text. Working primarily in color and black-and-white, he constructs intimate, multilayered narratives around marginalized communities, family structures, and social displacement. His practice merges photojournalism with conceptual strategies, layering found objects, ephemera, and personal annotation onto the photographic surface to create dense, autobiographical archives.
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Museum of Modern Art
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