This Far and No Further: Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement (Focus on American History)

Abranowicz, William; Abranowicz, Zander

ISBN 10: 1477321748 / ISBN 13: 9781477321744

Published by University of Texas Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Far and No Further: Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement (Focus on American History)
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477321748
• ISBN 13: 9781477321744
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 54 ounces

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Synopsis

Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 2017, photographer William Abranowicz was struck by the weight of historical memory at this hallowed site of one of the civil rights movement's defining episodes: 1965's “Bloody Sunday,” when Alabama police officers attacked peaceful marchers. To Abranowicz’s eye, Selma seemed relatively unchanged from its apperance in the photographs Walker Evans made there in the 1930s. That, coupled with an awareness of renewed voter suppression efforts at state and federal levels, inspired Abranowicz to explore the living legacy of the civil and voting rights movement through photographing locations, landscapes, and individuals associated with the struggle, from Rosa Parks and Harry Belafonte to the barn where Emmett Till was murdered.

The result is This Far and No Further, a collection of photographs from Abranowicz's journey through the American South. Through symbolism, metaphor, and history, he unearths extraordinary stories of brutality, heroism, sacrifice, and redemption hidden within ordinary American landscapes, underscoring the crucial necessity of defending―and exercising―our right to vote at this tenuous moment for American democracy.

About the Author

William Abranowicz is a photographer whose work has been acquired by the National Portrait Galleries of the United States and United Kingdom, the Getty, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other collections. A long-standing contributing photographer to Condé Nast Traveler, he is the author of five books, most recently American Originals: Creative Interiors.