Jim Goldberg - Raised by Wolves (First Edition) - 1995

Incluido en Parr Martin, Badger Gerry, The Photobook: A History II

Raro primer edición de 1995 en excelente estado

Jim Goldberg ha estado exponiendo durante más de 30 años y su uso innovador de la imagen y el texto lo convierten en un fotógrafo landmark de nuestros tiempos. Comenzó a explorar la narración experimental y las posibilidades de combinar imagen y texto con "Rich and Poor" (1977-85), donde juxtaposeó a los residentes de habitaciones de hoteles de asistencia social con la clase alta y sus hogares elegantemente amueblados para investigar la naturaleza de los mitos estadounidenses sobre la clase, el poder y la felicidad. En Raised by Wolves (1985-95), trabajó estrechamente con y documentó a adolescentes fugitivos en San Francisco y Los Ángeles para crear un libro y una exposición que combinaron fotografías originales, texto, stills de home movies, instantáneas, dibujos, entradas de diario, así como vídeo de un solo canal y multicanal, escultura, objetos encontrados, cajas de luz y otros elementos 3-D. "Every year, hundreds of American kids leave the apparent safety and comfort of the family home for an uncertain and frequently dangerous life on the streets of the big cities. As always, Goldberg takes photographs of his subjects and then complements his views with theirs, adding their thoughts from interviews, their handwritten musings on scraps of paper, the snapshots they carry and other relevant pieces of found material. The result is a collaged photobook, rich in incidental material, that emerges as a multi-layered and ambiguous document, resistant to easy generalizations about the motives and incidents that compel the young people featured to take the drastic step of running away [...] This is a hard-hitting and affecting book. Goldberg tries at all time to remain both sympathetic and dispassionate. In this he largely succeeds and Raised by Wolves while sparing us nothing of the grim facts, is refreshingly free of the voyeurism and sentimental prurience that can often accompany such reports from the United States' underclasses" (da Parr & Badger, "The Photobook: A History Volume II").