Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg
Mattress Shoes (Artist Collaboration with Vans), 2020
Womens Size 7 Shoe
Signed by the artist in a unique way!

This pair of shoes is from my own collection and is one of my favorite designs from my collaboration with Vans Vault. 

Showcasing Vans’ commitment to art and outsider culture at large, Vans has partnered with iconic photographer, Jim Goldberg, on a custom collection of footwear, clothing and accessories. Created to celebrate his influential book Raised by Wolves (1995), which documents the lives of teenage runaways living on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the capsule collection features three OG Vans styles adorned with key elements from the book. Raised by Wolves collages ten years of photographs, texts, films and installations to create a multilayered depiction of displaced and misunderstood youths in their pursuit of freedom. The photographs, made between 1985 and 1995, weave in and out of home movie stills, discarded belongings, drawings and diary entries from Goldberg’s subjects, effectively creating a scrapbook of the stark and unsparing reality of life on the street.

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Jim Goldberg’s innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times. His long-term projects include Rich and Poor (1977-85), Raised by Wolves (1985-95), Open See (2003-2011), Coming and Going (1999-2023), and 31 Cuts (2025). He was awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011 for Open See. Goldberg’s works are in numerous collections including the: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty, LACMA, National Gallery of Art, Alinari National Museum of Photography in Florence, Le Musee de la Photographie, Belgium, and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany. Goldberg is represented by Casemore Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos.

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