Since 1999, Jim Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes, returning to his studio to re-imagine and explore these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage and reconstruction for which he has become famous. This book traces a journey through grief after the death of his parents, the shocking birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce and the rediscovery of love. Told using a tumultuous mix of singular and combined images, personal notes, collages and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, The inevitable comings and goings that shape us and the ways in which we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar with such celebrated works as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg's visual language employs sequence and narrative with feverish intensity. History, memory and imagination collide in a vivid material practice in which the influences of fiction and film, and of the book itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable and sometimes overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience - an achievement that constitutes Goldberg's masterpiece and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.
MACK Books, 2023
360 pages
26.5 × 34 cm
ISBN: 9781912339778
Since 1999, Jim Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes, returning to his studio to re-imagine and explore these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage and reconstruction for which he has become famous. This book traces a journey through grief after the death of his parents, the shocking birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce and the rediscovery of love. Told using a tumultuous mix of singular and combined images, personal notes, collages and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, The inevitable comings and goings that shape us and the ways in which we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar with such celebrated works as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg's visual language employs sequence and narrative with feverish intensity. History, memory and imagination collide in a vivid material practice in which the influences of fiction and film, and of the book itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable and sometimes overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience - an achievement that constitutes Goldberg's masterpiece and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.
MACK Books, 2023
360 pages
26.5 × 34 cm
ISBN: 9781912339778
