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Jim Goldberg

Arthur looks bored; I look like I am a prop

1981, printed 1984

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Jim Goldberg

Arthur looks bored; I look like I am a prop

1981, printed 1984

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 355 x 278 mm. (14 x 10 15/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the series "Rich and Poor"
Credit Line Gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.199
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Gamynne Guillotte and Oliver Shell, Joseph Education Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Imagining Home," November 9, 2016 - April 9, 2017.
Rich and Poor: Photographs by Jim Goldberg, New York: Random House, 1985, ill. section 2, 54th unnumbered page

Inscribed: Verso: hand-written in graphite, LL, '123'; LR, 'Jim Goldberg 1981/84'; UR, 'JG.033.2'

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Jim Goldberg

American, born 1953

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