Echo's Home Movies
1995, printed 1997
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16 chromogenic prints
Dimensions
sheet/image: 35.3 cm, 49 7/8 in. (13 7/8 in., 126.75 cm)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Betsy Karel)
Accession Number
2015.19.4717
Art Historical Context
Jim Goldberg’s *Echo’s Home Movies* (1995, printed 1997) is a multi-part photographic work composed of sixteen chromogenic prints. As a color process popular in the late twentieth century, chromogenic printing allowed artists to produce rich, saturated images that feel both intimate and immediate. The title hints at personal, domestic subject matter—perhaps everyday scenes or private moments—arranged as a visual sequence that invites viewers to piece together a story. Goldberg is known for exploring individual lives through photography, often giving his subjects agency in how they are represe...
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...