FOAM MAGAZINE #18 / DISPLACED / JIM GOLDBERG

The innovative use of image and text is one of Jim Goldberg’s (US, 1953) most typical hallmarks. He began to explore experimental storytelling with the series Rich and Poor (1977– 1985), in which differences within the American class system are efficiently exposed. In Raised by Wolves (1985 – 1995), he continued his investigation of the underprivileged, and closely documented a group of homeless teenagers in Los Angeles and San Francisco over ten years. Besides his socially engaged work, Jim Goldberg is also well-known for his fashion, editorial and advertising work which has been published in numerous magazines including, W,

Details, Flaunt, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rebel, GQ, The New Yorker and Dazed and Confused. Jim Goldberg became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2006 and is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Since receiving his first solo show in 1979, Goldberg has exhibited both in the US and internationally. His work is represented in major private and public collections, including the MoMA and Whitney Museum in New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, SF MoMA in San Francisco, The J. Paul Getty Museum and LACMA in Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Art Institute of Chicago. Goldberg has received many awards and grants including, most recently, the Aftermath Project Award in 2006 and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award in 2007 (sponsored by Groupe Wendel). This prestigious award offers a photographer the opportunity to carry out a project that would otherwise be hard to achieve. Goldberg’s project will be exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris: Open See, from May 5 to July 26, 2009. From May 7 to August 31, Magnum Gallery in Paris will feature Rich and Poor. Goldberg is currently working on two books on migration in Europe to be published by Steidl. The first one, Open See, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Goldberg is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.

All images: ΠJim Goldberg, courtesy Magnum Photos, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco