Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “Rich and Poor

Juxtapoz Magazine – A look inside Jim Goldberg’s “Rich and Poor”

36 years ago Jim Goldberg took his first photograph for Rich and Poor on Mission Street in San Francisco. Looking out from his current studio windows…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/a-look-inside-jim-goldberg-s-rich-and-poor

In his republished book Rich and Poor (originally published in 1985), Goldberg reflects on how little has changed other than the faces and that the living conditions are even more tenuous and hopeless than before. Shot during 1977 to 1985 in San Francisco, Goldberg documented the wealthy and impoverished, believing “that once people saw what was happening, than we, as a society, would fix it,” says the photographer