View From Room 114, Pontiac Hotel
1992, printed 1994
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 27.6 × 35.4 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.) image: 22 × 32.4 cm (8 11/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Betsy Karel)
Accession Number
2015.19.4836
Art Historical Context
**View from Room 114, Pontiac Hotel** (1992, printed 1994) is a poignant gelatin silver print by acclaimed documentary photographer Jim Goldberg. Capturing a stark, intimate vista from a modest hotel room window, this 27.6 × 35.4 cm photograph evokes the quiet isolation of urban transient life. Goldberg, renowned for his empathetic chronicles of marginalized communities—seen in seminal works like *Rich and Poor* (1977–1985)—brings his signature blend of raw observation and social insight to this image. Created amid the early 1990s economic hardships and rising homelessness in American cities ...
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...