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[roadtospirit]

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[utexaspress]

Look Inside William Abranowicz's Book This Far and No Further

In the book This Far and No Farther—by photographer William Abranowicz and with a foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones—delivers more than one hundred contemporary images of the places that shaped the civil rights movement, proving the Edmund Pettus Bridge and other historic sites still have stories to tell.

Out February 2021 → https://bit.ly/ThisFarAndNoFurther 

[ABOUT THE BOOK]

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 Farther, 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 PHOTOGRAPHER]

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.

[wabranowicz]

There are currently active 250 pieces of legislation in 43 states to limit voting. From This Far and No Further—. Camilla, Georgia, 2019 This storefront stands across from the Mitchell County Courthouse Square. On September 19, 1868, during the period known as Reconstruction, a column of several hundred freedmen and a small number of sympathetic white citizens—many of them armed, as was legal at the time—marched from Albany, Georgia, to Camilla to attend a Republican rally in the square. Early that month, the leader of the march, Philip Joiner, along with twenty-seven other African American state legislators, had been expelled from their elected positions in the Georgia General Assembly. When they reached the square, a group of white citizens deputized by the local sheriff fired on the marchers and pursued them into the surrounding swamps, where an estimated nine to fifteen were killed and forty others wounded. From #thisfarandnofurther text @zabranowicz foreword @nikolehannahjones @utexaspress (at Camilla, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMcgTbUMI3l/?igshid=1c23ejbej43z7

[wabranowicz]

Shiloh Baptist Church, Albany, Ga. The Albany Movement tonight 7pm live and via web tix @bedfordhistorical #thisfarandnofurther #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzggPtp0gv/?igshid=1dgaviso4wdui

[wabranowicz]

In doing my new book, This Far and No Further, one of the things I learned quickly was how critical a role women played, and continue to play, in the voting rights movement. The names came at me in every state I visited and in every story I read—Ida Wells, Septima Clark, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Constance Baker Motley. It became clear that while men got the glory, women did a lot of the work. It is 100 years since the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified. Electoral power is firmly in the hands of women of every color and that gives me hope as long as we can protect access to the ballot. Women will lead us to victory in America. Women will save our democracy. #thisfarandnofurther @utexaspress https://www.instagram.com/p/CEC5_p_pjCV/?igshid=418481uqkxzz

[wabranowicz]

John Lewis changed my life. John Lewis changed America. He did it with love. He did it with compassion and he did it with all his heart. When I walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the first time in 2017, I thought about what young John Lewis endured to get White Americans to just see the truth and seek justice. He was beaten by police dozens of times and arrested more than 40 but he continued through his whole life to use his feet to protest. I learned about getting into trouble from him. To speak up..."Good trouble, necessary trouble”, he would famously say. In the midst of working on my book, he was subject number one but getting time on his busy schedule was not easy. His book, Walking with the Wind started me on a shocking and strangely powerful journey. Then on my daughter’s graduation day, I was sitting a hotel lobby in Boston and looked up to see him standing right next to me. He was the commencement speaker and here I was talking to my hero--The SNCC student leader, the Freedom Rider, the legendary man with fire inside and a gentility that was humbling. I made this photograph of the Georgia Congressman on June 6, 2018 on the balcony of his office in Washington, DC. It was the fiftieth anniversary of RFK’s murder. Mr. Lewis was campaigning for Kennedy in LA that day in 1968 and was in his hotel room at the Ambassador Hotel watching Kennedy’s victory speech after the California Presidential Primary. As he might have felt that day, many will feel today. #vote #thisfarandnofurther #johnlewis @utexaspress @mabranowicz @zabranowicz @repjohnlewis https://www.instagram.com/p/CCyFK_RpxNz/?igshid=figzbzwbb86g

[wabranowicz]

@naacp_ldf @naacp #thisfarandnofurther (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7sWbAplzz/?igshid=1d5ffwwv3o5q1

[wabranowicz]

@zabranowicz #thisfarandnofurther https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3JpREpyTh/?igshid=brujueztdbjg

[wabranowicz]

I want the right to vote by mail for my mother, for your mother and father, and grandparents. I want it for myself and for my children. For you and your children. @realdonaldtrump and @rnc will do all they can to see that does not happen because if more Americans vote, they lose. The rollout readying America for Covid was such a total fuck up, I expect a post pandemic plan to be an even worse mess adding democracy to Covid's death rolls. #thisfarandnofurther #vote #stayhome #votebymail https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zirtvJqxr/?igshid=ytyk9p56tgyl

[wabranowicz]

In Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I’m taking my little piece of social media and mentioning the work of Rev. Liz Theoharis and Bishop William Barber of @poorpeoplescampaign . Their organization continues the work of Dr. King’s today -- seeking justice in all forms for the poor of all colors. It’s a solemn and respectful day but the continuation of #MLK’s work towards making right injustice, cultivating fairness, and giving kindness and love is the true memorial to Dr King’s work. @brepairers @kairos.center . Photographs from #thisfarandnofurther @zabranowicz https://www.instagram.com/p/B7hPQdSJs3K/?igshid=17srhh0b5w8z8

[wabranowicz]

Stand At Your Own Risk Jackson, Ms. April 2018 37.5” x 50” Archival Pigment Print mounted on Dibond Aluminum Composite available @mattblackeinc #thisfarandnofurther https://www.instagram.com/p/BrAq-9Tl91Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10yqkn4ld16zh

[wabranowicz]

If reading today’s news is depressing, know that change is possible. Try as they will to suppress access to the ballot, Americans will rise and #vote. We can flush this system clean. Together. If you know someone in #Florida, call them. Someone in #Arizona? #Nevada? #Texas? Upstate #NY? #Georgia? #northdakota? Call them. Make one call and make sure they vote. And do not give up! @mattblackeinc #thisfarandnofurther @repjohnlewis nearly died to procure his vote don’t waste yours. (at New York's 18th Congressional District) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpeow_QAHEL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lzap5j86gafv

[wabranowicz]

#vote The bedroom dresser in the home of Myrlie and Medgar Evers. #NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was shot in the back in the driveway of his home by a white supremacist in 1963. it took 30 years to obtain a conviction of the killer. From #thisfarandnofurther @mattblackeinc 7021 Melrose Ave #la #vote (at Jackson, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpufdahFq0L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ze1s99tnm6yx

[wabranowicz]

White supremacist night riders drove roads like this one near Money, Mississippi intimidating, threatening and killing African American voting registrants and voting activists during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. So let’s turn to next Tuesday and #VOTE. Let our beloved community place a check on the hate and fear. But no matter where you stand know lives were given up to get the vote. Use it. Encourage participation. From #thisfarandnofurther @mattblackeinc gallery exhibition through late November. 7021 Melrose Ave #losangeles https://www.instagram.com/p/BpryNrflyml/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o00wmjelqv3s