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“Miss Juneteenth, Sycamore Park, Fort Worth,” 1984, a photograph by Peter Helms Feresten, on view through September 11 in the exhibition Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Peter Helms Feresten © The artist
“Saturday Night,” 1984, a photograph by Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, on view through September 11 in the exhibition Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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“Untitled,” 1969, a photograph by Garry Winogrand, on view through September 11 in the exhibition Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Garry Winogrand © The Estate of Garry Winogrand. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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“You are twenty-one—exactly the same age I was when I had my one and only abortion, in London in 1938. This was way before anyone talked about the ‘right’ to an abortion, and I want to tell you my story to convey how precious a right it is. Abortions then were totally illegal; the very subject was taboo among the well-brought-up English of those days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of consulting anybody in my family, from whom I was estranged and who anyway wouldn’t have been likely to have useful ideas on the subject.”
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