Artworks

Jim Goldberg

Geekin’ and Freakin’ #2, 1987-1991

16 silver gelatin prints

1987-1991

93 x 72 inches overall (each 11 x 14 inches)

For the experimental storytelling of Raised By Wolves—represented in this exhibition by an assemblage of 17 individual images together called “Geekin and Freakin #2—Goldberg followed a cast of California youths as they fell in and out of society for a decade bridging the ‘80s and ‘90s, documenting their lives, helping them when he could, and eventually creating a tribute to them with the publication of Raised by Wolves. Both a critically acclaimed book and a lauded traveling exhibition, the body of work contains tens of thousands of photographs, along with video, audio, written testimonials, and artifacts. Nearly thirty years after it was first shown and published, Goldberg is still contending with the work, repurposing and reimagining the photographs and their arrangements.