Jim Goldberg - Fingerprint

Jim Goldberg
Fingerprint

Published by Stanley / Barker, 2020
90 Pages
Size: 12 x 15 cm
ISBN 978-1913288181

Often considered Jim Goldberg's seminal work, Raised By Wolves brings together ten years of photography, text, film, and installation into an epic tale of the lives of teenage runaways in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In Fingerprint, Goldberg exhibits numerous unseen Polaroids from the project, which served as rough drafts for the photographs he would later take, as well as gifts for the subjects themselves. The images are sometimes scribbled with text proclaiming the adolescents' identities, challenges, and resilience, and other times capture a quiet reality of life on the streets.
Encased in a slipcase, the 45 loose-leaf facsimile Polaroids create a freshly intimate and fragmented account of this classic work.