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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.
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