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Photographer

Jim Goldberg is an influential American photographer known for his unique style and profound insights into social issues. His work often focuses on marginalized communities and individuals, documenting their stories through photography.

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Homelessness Raised By Wolves Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave Jim Goldberg

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“I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.”

Homelessness Raised By Wolves Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave Jim Goldberg

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“Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.”

Homelessness Raised By Wolves Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave Jim Goldberg

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“Dave: ''Will you ever be happy Echo?'' Echo: ''I don’t know I haven’t tried it yet.'' Dave: ''Let’s give it a shot together.'' Echo: ''Let’s spread fire instead.”

Video Homelessness Raised By Wolves Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave Jim Goldberg Echo And Dave

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“I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.”

Homelessness Homeless Youth Tweeky Dave

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“Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.”

Wells Kind Stories Running Order Asking Photograph Witness Thread Asking Questions Bearing Witness Ephemera

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“This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.”

Said Kids Boys Gun Window Bunch Hotel Sugar Daddy San Francisco Triggers Tanks Ceilings Loaded Sugar Daddy

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“I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.”

Use Brain Students Intuition

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“Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.”

Needs Complexity Immigrants Ambivalence

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“My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.”

Attention Agendas Ignored

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“It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.”

Found Havens

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“[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.”

Evidence Photograph

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“Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.”

Hard Wanted Memories Copies

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“There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.”

World Done Purpose Missing Changing The World

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“The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.”

People Kind Mets Photograph Proof Considering

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“I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.”

Privilege Intuition Guides Witness Intimacy Storyteller

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About the Author

Born: June 3, 1953
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 16

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