Curated / Season ONE

Whirlpool

Jim Goldberg

This project, Whirlpool, began in 2019 from a commission by the High Museum of Art as part of their Picturing the South collection. The Obscura Curated commission has allowed me to continue this project and go deeper.

I worked in a small, racially mixed, and working-class town by the name of Augusta, AR. Located along the White River in Arkansas’s Delta region, its heyday had long passed with the gradual decline of steamships and use of the river. I was fascinated by the small-town life and its history, the landscape, the hunting culture, the complicated familial ties, and the delicate dynamics of race and economic status that lived there. It was complex and stood out to me as a true reflection of contemporary American consciousness at this moment.

The work received its name from the White River, which at one time was the lifeblood of Augusta. In the river, many literal and metaphoric whirlpools are created by opposing currents, and tensions within the community and in the country at large.

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Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #1 B&M Auto Parts by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #2 Bobby by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #3 Kibbs by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #4 President's Day II by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #5 "Suburbs" by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #6 February 19 by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #7 Boy Collecting Cans by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #8 Kensea by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #9 Norfork Lake by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #10 Hunting Lodge by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #11 Hunter and Snow Geese He Killed that Day by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #12 Delorise by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #13 Patricia Dell by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #14 Preacher's Son by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #15 Camella and Cortnie by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #16 Jim, Wildlife Sports Bar and Grill by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #17 Bartender the the Wildlife Sports Bar and Grill by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #18 Route 79 by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #19 Man With Cane by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #20 Basketball Game by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #21 Sunday Services, Northside Church of Christ by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #22 Berry Pie by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #23 The Art Center of the Grand Prairie by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #24 Controlled Burn by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #25 Birds by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #26 Counting Ducks by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #27 Tagging, Strait Lake Lodge, Pumpkin Bend by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #28 Me + Lil Bit by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #29 Sandra by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #30 Model Church by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #31 James by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #32 President's Day I by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #33 Police Chief by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #34 David by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #35 Katina's House by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #36 Jame's House by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #37 Jackie Dancing by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #38 Calvin's Puzzle by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #39 Ice Storm by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #40 Harry Saul Minnow Farm by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #41 George Paul Eldridge Jr. by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #42 Foal by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #43 George by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #44 Dining Room by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #45 Mad Dog's Auntie by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #46 Jackie by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #47 Bobby's Twinky by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #48 Zion by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #49 AG by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #50 Kita by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #51 Gayne Preller Archard Schmidt by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #52 Gayne by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #53 Gayne's Wedding Dress by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #54 Abandoned Home by Jim Goldberg

Whirlpool #55 Melissa, Jess Norman Post 166 American Legion Hut by Jim Goldberg

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