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

Included in Parr Martin, Badger Gerry, The Photobook: A History II

Rare 1995 first edition in excellent condition

Jim Goldberg har varit aktiv som fotograf i över 30 år och hans innovativa användning av bild och text gör honom till en banbrytande fotograf i vår tid. Han började utforska experimentell berättarteknik och potentialen i att kombinera bild och text med "Rich and Poor" (1977-85), där han satte de boende i bidragshälsaners hotellrum i kontrast till överklassen och deras smakfullt inredda hem för att undersöka myternas natur om klass, makt och lycka i USA. I Raised by Wolves (1985-95) arbetade han nära och dokumenterade rymningstagna tonåringar i San Francisco och Los Angeles för att skapa en bok och utställning som kombinerade originalfoton, text, hemmavideobilder, snapshots, teckningar, dagboksanteckningar samt singel- och multi-kanals video, skulptur, hittade objekt, ljusbord och andra 3D-element. "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").