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To
Whom It May Concern
When I - here from Denmark - followed the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, I
couldn't just sit idly by. Many young protesters focused mainly on the police
killings of black people, perhaps not knowing much about the historical roots
behind much of the anger today. Many books have been written about this by black
authors, but to my knowledge none with pictures. All movements die out quickly,
so I hope this book can be a visual addition.
Since I have 22,000 photos in my archives from 50 years of traveling in the
Black community, I came up with the idea of creating a visual book as an
inspiration for the movement - about the oppression and systemic
racism that I have personally witnessed since coming to America 4 years after
the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement. It is my hope that the book can be
published quickly enough to be useful in Trump's and Biden's divided America
with its ever growing economic, social and racial inequality.
See the full book here:
Read
the book online here
https://indd.adobe.com/view/63edf566-922c-4759-bec3-70dbf80e5a96
Flip through the book with the page index below. Press the full screen button
below for the best experience. Click on the links below the interviews and
lyrics to instantly see the live videos on which the text is based.
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 pages as
image files
Quickly find and send individual pages as low-resolution web images.
Shorter extracts:
Arthur Jafa's foreword
My old foreword
Life stories of: Sharecropper Lefus
Whitley - My girlfriend Mary
- Virginia Pate -
Rockefeller
Linda, the small girl with the kerose lamp
- The gangster Alphonso
- My ex-wife Annie
Renee Yates, naked at the crucifix
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
More about the book
and my background
Technic details of proposed coffee table book
which I have set up in InDesign 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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