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When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous - Image 1
When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous - Image 2

Jim Goldberg

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

1981, printed 1984

When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous — thumbnail 1
When I was young I dreamed of marriage and children and to write and to be glamorous — thumbnail 2
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Jim Goldberg

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

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 1998.192
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 1, 2017 -
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'

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Jim Goldberg

American, born 1953

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