Jacob Holdt presents "American Pictures"

On Wednesday, October 16, 1985, Dickinson College hosted noted Danish photographer Jacob Holdt and his exhibition entitled American Pictures. This exhibition includes photographs of and interviews with people Holdt met while hitchhiking across the United States between 1971 and 1976. Jacob Holdt accompanied the three hour exhibit with a narration of his experiences, as well as interviews he had recorded with a pocket tape recorder.

In the words of the American Pictures newsletter distributed to the audience before the show, stated "This show portrays society from a frog perspective, from the position of those worst off: a society is no better than it is for the least of its members!"