about my museum exhibitions and life
After Agee
A comparison with
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Agee
After Agee in "Aperture" by J. Ronald Green
Alec Soth - Magnum photographer with a world wide following of his
YouTube reviews of photo books - on how he for years hesitated to even
look at my book as art, but in 2022 was totally won over by it:
Alec Soth on
YouTube: On Saying Yes (to Jacob Holdt)
A Note on Poor Cinema
The deepest illustrated review of both the film, slideshow and book ! !
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Critical attractions in Jacob Holdt’s American
Pictures by J. Ronald Green
The dream and the dark side
"Danish
photographer Jacob Holdt traveled the country in the 1970s.
His pictures shocked the world and show us today how deeply rooted
the division is in American society"
24 pages in
Geo Magazine in Germany, November
2022
A hippie apostle among racists
In the 70’s Jacob Holdt toured the US associating with the poorest
among the blacks and toughest of white supremacy. With photos from that
journey, he is teaching today what he learned then: “Racism? Is a
disease”
La Republicca, Il Venerdi, Italy September 21st, 2022
One Photographer's Look at Social Dislocation
After my exhibition in Braunschweig
Review in
Der Spiegel, February 16th, 2010
A review
especially on the photos in the book
How Jacob Holdt's American Pictures works
Graffiti artist Dash Snow often said he
was inspired by my photos. After his death his wife Jade Berreau and
actress Joy Bryant made a long interview with me in Jade's house in
Brooklyn.
Interview in "Let's Panic magazine"
Vagabonding
What he shares with Goldin is an absolute lack of
distance or inhibition between photographer and subjects. In
Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (which, like Holdt’s
American Pictures, enjoyed it’s first incarnation as a slide show)
we get an hermetic account of a community with a fairly fixed cast
of characters within a city at a particular historical moment. The
same is true of the grey rush of Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971). With
Goldin it’s transgressives, bohemians, and druggies on the Lower
East Side; with Clark it’s teenage speed freaks shooting up in Oklahoma.
Holdt’s project is inherently less circumscribed. His readiness to go
along with whatever happens and to get along with whoever he happens to
run into makes for a sprawling odyssey of serial intimacies and random
proximity.
Geoff Dyer for Holdt's exhibition in MoMa
Louisiana
Interview for Deutsche Börse Photography price
