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After hitchhiking in from the poor black field workers I first stayed in my friend Marjorie’s millionaire home in Miami Beach, but her other conservative guests did not like my photobook of poor blacks. So Marjorie asked me to leave for now, “Jacob, you have got to leave - whenever it is convenient for you.”
Hitchhiking down millionaire road, I was then picked up by Bruce Gopman and invited home, and right after took me on wild boat ride in their fancy speedboat to get away from his cold mother. When I politely asked her if I could photograph her in her wealthy surroundings, she said, “Are you kidding?” Her son Bruce was afraid of her and told me – what I already sensed – that there was no love in the family of busy career lawyers. However, when the mother went out, I took a series of photos from the house of Bruce’s little sister and her Cuban maid.
Next day I hitchhiked 2 hours up north to the far more affluent Palm Beach, where I borrowed the car of famous millionaire Bill Gandall to drive out to see the black slave camps around Lake Okeechobee nearby. See next photo. And a couple of days later I returned to Miami and photographed the Haitian funeral on the previous photo.
6417 Pinetree Circle, Miami Beach, FL – March 15th 1974 (us-00192)
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