Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg (1953 – ) is an American photographer know for producing work that combines images and text. His breakthrough work was a series titled Rich and Poor, a series of images of afflent and impoverished residents of the San Francisco Bay area, produced between 1977 and 1985. The work looks at he social divide in America in the 1970s and 80s and features black and white portraits accompanied by hand written text from the subjects. Speaking about his work to the Guardian in 2009 Goldberg stated: “There’s a thread that runs through all the work that is to do … Continue reading Jim Goldberg