1 0
    £31.77 GBP
    £31.77 GBP
    Sale Sold out
    Free UK Shipping

    Freshly Printed - allow 7 days lead

    This Far and No Further
    Photographs Inspired by the Voting Rights Movement

    William Abranowicz (Author), Zander Abranowicz (Author), Nikole Hannah-Jones (Introduction by)

    9781477321744, University of Texas Press

    Hardback, published 9 February 2021

    200 pages, 128 color photos
    30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm, 1.533 kg

    [A] powerful work...Eye-opening and moving, these images commemorate the past and have the power to energize leaders of the future.
    (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
    An earnest photographic exploration of some key loci of the Southern civil rights movement and its aftermath...Of interest as a visual record of ordinary places now exalted in history and memory.
    (Kirkus)
    [An] enlightening chronicle of the struggle for voting rights in the American South.
    (Elle Decor)

    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.

    Foreword
    Preface
    Part I. Mortal Sin
    Part II. Redemption
    Part III. Revival
    Further Reading
    View full details