USA: Rural black underclass
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/usa/index_rural_indoor.htm
USA: The despair, hunger and apathy resulting from oppression
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/usa/index_apathy_1.htm
USA: Crime and subcultures of the underclass
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/usa/USA-index3.htm
USA: White racism, poverty - and the filthy rich
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/usa/USA-index4.htm
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/reviews/edumedia/brecht.htm
>...American Pictures, a multi-media presentation by Danish
photographer Jacob Holdt, is Brechtian epic theater par excellence.
Holdt's insightful and sensitive slide-show presentation which
combines photography, music, poetry, statistics, slogans and a
compassionate narrative fulfills Brecht's requirement for a socially
significant, alienating theater. It is a form of theater which turns
spectators into observers and forces them to confront the social
relationships which underlie the every day actions and occurrences
that they normally take for granted....
American Pictures, Holdt's documentation of his five plus years of vagabonding in the United States, is a sensuous and complex version of Brecht's street scene. It is an exploration of the causes and effects of poverty and racism in the America....