Lecture 11 . Jacob Holdt . American Pictures 1970–1975

6 July 2008

Jacob Holdt spent five years in the 1970s photographing every stratum of US society:  blacks and whites, multimillionaires and the poorest of the poor, murderers and prostitutes, human beings between hopelessness, drug addition, death, violence, and loving solidarity. His photographs and his unflinching view of human suffering still exert a powerful, shocking impact, even after over thirty years.