 First published in 1985 by Random House, Rich and Poor is a seminal development in the experimental story telling through photography. Goldberg made portraits of individuals from all social classes, after which the subjects wrote their impression of the image on the face of the photographs. The combination of text and image investigates myths about class, power and happiness while revealing an intimate portrayal of the human condition…. ASX.TV: Jim Goldberg – “TBW Books Presents – ‘Rich and Poor’ 25th Anniversary Edition” (2011)  From Philip & Micheline, 2011 By Amelia Sechman and Paul Schiek, TBW Weekly Amelia Sechman: In an interview with Jörg Colberg, on his site Conscientious, you said you thought you would be a very bad German photographer because of the diversity in your subject matter and compositional approaches. How do you feel that being “raised,” so to speak, by 20th century American photography has influenced your practice? Mark Steinmetz: My parents … INTERVIEW: “Mark Steinmetz” (2011)  By Doug Rickard And it always ends in death… the Home of the Brave – the Land of the Free and the fragile thread that is our breath. We reach back into our head and touch the collective dream… the shared memento-a memory quilt, the things, they happened-it happened-everything happened – the connections, the land, the race – our race. The dusts and dirts, our happiness and our hurts… the cycle, our circle, a continuum, our line f… ABNER NOLAN: “Away”  …. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really… INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman” |
