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Jim Goldberg

This picture says that we are a very emotional & tight family, like the three Musketeers

1979, printed 1984

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This picture says that we are a very emotional & tight family, like the three Musketeers

Jim Goldberg

This picture says that we are a very emotional & tight family, like the three Musketeers

Jim Goldberg

This picture says that we are a very emotional & tight family, like the three Musketeers

1979, 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 1998.186
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Gamynne Guillotte and Oliver Shell, Joseph Education Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Imagining Home," October 25, 2015 - April 24, 2016.
Rich and Poor: Photographs by Jim Goldberg, New York: Random House, 1985, ill. section 1, 52nd unnumbered page

Inscribed: Verso, hand-written in graphite: LR, 'Jim Goldberg 1979/84'; LL, '129'; UR, 'JG.013.2'

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Jim Goldberg

American, born 1953

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