Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg's singular autobiographical work. Since 1999, Goldberg has photographed his everyday life through all its vicissitudes, returning to his studio to reimagine and investigate these images through the collage, annotation, montage and reconstruction for which he is renowned. The book traces a path through the grief of losing parents, the life-changing birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce and the rediscovery of love. Told through a correspondingly tumultuous combination of individual and combined images, personal notes, collages and ephemera, it captures the bittersweet realities of one life while reflecting on the universal, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we come to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg's visual language employs sequences and narratives with feverish intensity. History, memory and imagination collide in a vividly material practice in which fiction, cinema and the book form itself play a fundamental role. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable and sometimes overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience: an achievement that stands as Goldberg's masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.