Dear Jim (Coming and Going)
An interview with Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg
Dear Jim,
Congratulations again on the new book! It was such a pleasure chatting with you.
Very best,
Sammi
Coming and Going
Jim Goldberg
On the centreline of a photograph by Jim Goldberg, two lookalike kittens sidle up so close together they could be a Rorschach test; this is most definitely the kind of cosy scene one hopes would drift up readily from the subconscious. There is an on-your-deathbed normality and overabundance in the prints and pages by Goldberg: huh, so that’s what life was about.
‘The way that I look at the world is not just through a singular viewpoint,’ Goldberg says, ‘it’s almost like I’m seeing a montage’. Renowned for his playful approach to documentary photography, including collage and annotation (often by his subjects), his new book Coming and Going sees Goldberg pointing the camera inward, on himself and his family, from the 1980s to the present day.
