Vicki Goldberg

Victoria Hesse Goldberg ( Liebson; July 24, 1936 – May 29, 2025) was an American photography critic, author and photo historian based in New Hampshire. She wrote books and articles on photography and its social history.

Early life and education Born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 24, 1936, Goldberg earned a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1958, and a master's degree in art history from New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Life and work Goldberg's books include The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives; Light Matters (a selection of her essays); and The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History; as well as editing the anthology Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present. Her first biography, Margaret Bourke-White, took an in-depth look at the life and techniques of Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer active in the early to mid-20th century. She also wrote introductions to a number of photographic monographs. Margaret Bourke-White and The Power of Photography were included in the American Library Association's lists of best books of their respective years. In 2006, Photography in Print was named by The Wall Street Journal one of the year's five best books on photography.

Goldberg wrote for The New York Times and Vanity Fair. In 1992, she wrote an article about Madonna's book Sex in the New York Times. 1999: Royal Photographic Society's J Dudley Johnston Award