This Far and No Further
«[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
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Texas Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 200
- ISBN
- 9781477321744
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 31 x 23 cm
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«[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