American pictures
by Jacob Holdt · first published 1985
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From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.
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I find it odd that this link has gained such traction. Months ago I posted a link to Holdt's original American Pictures site and it sunk like a stone. I'm sure this has happened to other people here too. No figuring out what will or won't pop.
on “Brutal New York - 1965/95 ” ↗Something was triggered here, "American Pictures" by Jacob Holdt. I read the book in my late teens in East Germany. It was promoted there for ideological reasons, but the pictures were impressive and in some ways similar to those in the article.
on “Baldwin Lee on his rediscovered images of the deep south” ↗…least in his native Denmark - has been repeatedly exposed for somewhat inventive interpretations of truth. For example, it has been firmly established that in actual fact he did not - as he claims in American Pictures - participate in or even experience any fighting at Wounded Knee in 1973, where he apparently only arrived when the incident was effectively over.
on “American Pictures (1985) [pdf]” ↗