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Background for an update to my old book "American Pictures"
As an outsider in Denmark, I couldn't just sit idly by while following the Black
Lives Matter protests in 2020. While many young protesters focused on police
killings of Black people, they were perhaps unaware of the historical roots of
today's anger. Many books have been written on this topic by Black authors, but
to my knowledge, none of them include pictures. I have 22,000 photos in my
archive from 50 years of traveling in the Black community.
I decided to create a new visual aid to teach about the systemic racism/casteism
I have witnessed since coming to America four years after the civil rights
movement's triumph. Following the lives of my photographed friends from my old
book "American Pictures" for nearly a lifetime gives them and the side of
American history their lives illustrate new dimensions. I hope the book will be
useful in Trump's divided America, where economic, social, and racial inequality
are again growing.
See the full multimedia-book here:
Read
the book here as an Adobe flipbook
or check on you social media if it reads better
as a flipbook here
Use the page index below to browse through the online book. For the best
experience, press the full-screen button. Although the book has not yet been
printed, you can scan the QR codes in the interviews and lyrics with your phone
to instantly watch the live videos on which the text is based. The book will
later be printed as a 24.5x27.4 cm art photo book.
Just make sure you read the book on a computer screen that is large
enough to read the QR codes — or enlarge the book on the screen! ! !
Download the
book as a pdf - or as a
Word file
Download the Word file with
the text only
This allows you to better highlight and comment on the text.
Search online for specific chapters as image files
Or read them as individual pages
Here you can quickly find and send individual
pages as low-resolution images on the internet.
An overview of the QR codes that link to videos
in the book
Shorter extracts:
From the new book "The Ghetto in our
Hearts":
Arthur Jafa's foreword
My own foreword
Disclaimer
Afterword
Life stories included
in book:
Sharecropper Lefus
Whitley - My girlfriend Mary
- Virginia Pate -
Rockefeller
Linda, the small girl with the kerosene lamp
- The gangster Alphonso
- My ex-wife Annie
Renee Yates, naked at the crucifix
- Glynn Queen: From
hippie to Trump supporter
Special chapters:
The oppression of prostitutes -
The oppression of women
- The oppression of LGBTQ+
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White hate: Serial murderers
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White hate: Ku
Klux Klan - Black
resistance -
On hitch-hiking and psychic leaps
- Disposable society and the liberals
- The growing
inequality - About love
and black love
More about the book
and my background
Technical details of proposed coffee table book
which I have set up in InDesign partly based on my old
"American Pictures" layout with many newer and
larger photos
from my art exhibitions. Please help by suggesting other photos from
here or
here.
Background on myself
Many who read this know me from my previous books, exhibitions and my 7000
lectures in
America and
Europe,
others do not.
With love
Jacob Holdt
Gernersgade 63
1319 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone +45-20-324412
jacob@holdt.us
Facebook.com/Jacob.Holdt
Instagram.com/jacobholdtofficial
www.american-pictures.com
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