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Jim Goldberg

When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous

1980-1983

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Jim Goldberg

When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous

1980-1983

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 355 x 278 mm. (14 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.192
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Imagining Home
Rich and Poor: Photographs by Jim Goldberg, New York: Random House, 1985, ill. section 2, 5th unnumbered page

Inscribed: Verso, hand-written in graphite: LL, '120'; LR, 'Jim Goldberg 1981/84'; UR, 'JG.021.2'

Artist

Jim Goldberg

1952–2000

American, born 1953
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