American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American Underclass
Jacob Holdt
BOO 2412 U
€20,00
| CONDITION & NOTES | |
| Good / Exterior has some light surface wear and some wear along the edges. Flyleaf has a small spots of discolouration from a sticker. |
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| TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
| Softcover |
1985 |
| EDITION | LANGUAGE |
| First |
English |
| PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
| American Pictures Foundation | 24 x 20.5 x 2 cm |
CONDITION
Good / Exterior has some light surface wear and some wear along the edges. Flyleaf has a small spots of discolouration from a sticker.
TYPE
Softcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1985
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
American Pictures Foundation
DIMENSIONS
24 x 20.5 x 2 cm
Good / Exterior has some light surface wear and some wear along the edges. Flyleaf has a small spots of discolouration from a sticker.
TYPE
Softcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1985
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
American Pictures Foundation
DIMENSIONS
24 x 20.5 x 2 cm
ABOUT
In this illustrated odyssey of 800 photos Jacob Holdt describes his experiences at the Wounded Knee uprising, with drug addicts in "shooting galleries", and in projects with welfare mothers. He also depicts the friendships he developed with transvestites and transsexuals; the violence and murders he witnessed; his own arrest by the FBI; and his startling encounters with the opposite extreme of American society, including Jay Rockefeller and Ted Kennedy.
The book is a forceful reminder that the poverty and inhuman living conditions which were so brilliantly exposed a hundred years before by Holdt's fellow Dane, Jacob A. Riis, in his classic study, "How the Other Half Lives," continue to exist.