INTERVIEW: "Jacob Holdt – American Pictures" (1993)

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An Interview with Jacob Holdt: “American Pictures” (1993)

“I lived with my black friends all those years,” said Holdt. “I saw the pain and the suffering and I felt, when I showed the pictures to people, they didn’t even know the suffering that was going on in the midst of their own cities.”

By Ronald Netsky

via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/04/interview-jacob-holdt-1993.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29

Holdt approached the United States as a citizen of the world who would not accept the limitations society usually imposes. He lived with the underclass in the one-room shacks of the rural South and the urban slums of the North, but he has also slept in the homes of Rockefellers and other wealthy families. He photographed the protests at Wounded Knee by Native Americans in the early 1970s and secretly photographed and recorded Ku Klux Klan rallies.