Publisher/American Pictures Foundation

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"American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American Underclass" by Danish photographer and writer Jakob Holt (1947-). In the early 1970s, Holt began traveling across America with almost no money, hitchhiking and staying in over 350 homes, living alongside people and documenting American society from within. His photographs, taken within relationships he forged across class and race—from impoverished Black families and immigrant workers to drug addicts, the wealthy, and KKK members—not only denounce poverty, discrimination, and violence, but also expose the very social structures that create them. This work, combining photographs and his own writings, was published in Denmark in 1977 as "Amerikanske billeder," and this book is the 1985 First American Edition. With approximately 700 photographs and travel records, it is an extremely personal and political document. This book has been selected for both Andrew Roth's "The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century" and Martin Parr & Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II," and is highly regarded as one of the representative photobooks of the 20th century. Softcover edition. Damaged.