Destiny's Shiny Bracelet
1989
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 115.3 × 94.8 cm (45 3/8 × 37 5/16 in.) image: 110.8 × 84.8 cm (43 5/8 × 33 3/8 in.) framed: 135 × 104.2 × 3.3 cm (53 1/8 × 41 × 1 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.4521
Art Historical Context
**Destiny's Shiny Brace** *Jim Goldberg, 1989* Gelatin silver print *National Gallery of Art Corcoran Collection ( of the Artist)* Goldberg's *Destiny's Shiny Brace* (1989) is a monumental gelatin silver, with an image area measuring 110.8 × 84.8 cm—ally large for its time, inviting viewers into an intimate yet expansive visual world. The gelatin silver process, a cornerstone of 20th-century black-and-white photography, uses light-sensitive silver salts in a gelatin emulsion to yield rich tonal gradations, crisp details, and a tactile depth that digital methods later emulated but rar...
About the Artist
Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg, born in 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, emerged as a pivotal figure in American documentary photography through his immersive, collaborative approach to capturing marginalized lives. He earned a BA in photography from Western Washington University in 1975 before studying at the San Francisco Art Institute under Larry Sultan, a conceptually oriented photographer whose influence shaped...