Raised By Wolves

The now famous book about Runaways in the US. Portraits bed stuff objects letters plus interviews and facsimile writing by the young subject of Jim Goldberg's lens.

Raised By Wolves is a book of harrowing stories about teenage runaways who live on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The work combines photographs, found documents and snatches of handwritten, often poetic passages about their lives and feelings, written by the subjects themselves in response to encouragement from the author. The book is a shared narrative about dysfunctional family life in America, about the way teenagers lose themselves, and how easily they fall into rituals, driven by drugs, violence, daring and lack of affection. It is also about love and friendship, and about whether these teenagers will make it, and what they might survive for. This work challenges the generalizations previously made about homeless teenagers in America, and encourages the reader to question, rather than to judge, their lives.

Condition: Good used condition with some yellowing to edge of pages and a little wear to front and back cover.