Girl With No Name
1992, printed 1994
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.) image: 32.1 × 24.8 cm (12 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Betsy Karel)
Accession Number
2015.19.4852
Art Historical Context
**Girl With No Name**, a captivating gelatin silver print by Jim Goldberg from 1992 (printed 1994), invites viewers into the intimate world of documentary photography. Measuring 35.2 × 27.8 cm, this black-and-white image captures a sense of anonymity and vulnerability through its evocative title, evoking the stories of overlooked individuals in late 20th-century America. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Corcoran (Gift of Betsy Karel it exemplifies Goldberg's mastery in the Department of Photographs. Goldberg, a pioneering figure in social documentary photography, gained prominence in the ...
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...