The Golden City

A Photobook Case Study

Online Talk with Mimi Plumb

Thursday, June 23, 2022, 7PM EST

Free and open to the public

Registration required

Please join Aurora for an online discussion about the making of The Golden City, by Mimi Plumb, published by Stanley/Barker. Made between 1984 and 2020, the images in The Golden City depict the people and places on the edges of San Francisco as the city experiences a widening divide between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless. Plumb’s images investigate the relationship between wealth, power, and the landscape, with the incremental effects of climate change made visible in the city’s streets and people. The Golden City is Plumb’s third book, in addition to Landfall (2018, TBW Books) and The White Sky (2020, Stanley/Barker); we will also discuss her experiences working with designers and publishers and other lessons learned over the course of her career in photobook publishing.

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Mimi Plumb (mimiplumb.com) is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship. She has received grants and fellowships from the California Humanities, the California Arts Council, the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, and the Marin Arts Council. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Collection Deutsche Börse in Germany, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pier 24, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Plumb received her MFA in Photography from SFAI in 1986, and her BFA in Photography from SFAI in 1976.

Born in Berkeley, and raised in the suburbs of San Francisco, Mimi Plumb has served on the faculties of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Berkeley, California.