Jim Goldberg's Coming and Going
"a ragged magnum opus that covers all the forty-odd years since his youth, whose thousands of pictures [...] must set a record for sheer quantity, and whose words flow so copiously that image and text become one body"
"It says 'I' as no photographic book has except his own, simpler The Last Son (2016) and Candy (2017)"
"It has writing both in and outside its pictures, kaleidoscopic collages, oozing frames that melt in the fever a so-called shaman gave him in Mexico, and one swoon of nothing but red and gold"
see also his earlier, less autobiographical, more documentary projects
Rich and Poor (1985); the first in which Goldberg has his sitters write on their own photographs ("about what they saw, about themselves, even about him and how they doubted or had fallen for him")
"The beauty of having his sitters write on their photographs turned out to be that Goldberg saw no one's heart, only the solitude to which everyone was sentenced" ... everyone in the book "wears a mask behind each mask"
Raised by Wolves (1995)