Chiefly illustrated. Written and typed text appears in some of the images. Some images and pages are dated, ranging from 1980 to 2023.
Contents:
Part I. Herb and Lil ; The moment it happened ; The cancer has spread ; It's a woman's game ; What happened to them? ; From Sophos ; Dad's last shave ; Lost love -- Part II. Sorry ; Mom has a boyfriend ; May 1, 2000 ; Curse ; Lucky Charms ; Gold/Mine ; Still going.
Summary:
"Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg's unique work of autobiography. Since [the late 1970s], Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned. This book charts a course through the grief following the death of one's parents, the life-altering birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce, and the rediscovery of love. Told using a correspondingly tumultuous blend of singular and combined imagery, personal notes, collages, and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg's visual language employs sequence and narrative with a feverish intensity. History, memory, and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film, and the book form itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable, and at times overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience--an achievement that constitutes Goldberg's masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking"--https://www.mackbooks.us, accessed Sept. 20, 2023.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.