HALO is the word Ceausescu exclaims fifteen times on December 21, 1989 to the enraged crowd at Piaţa Palatului. A word that has become a symbol of the fall of the dictatorship in Romania. 4 days later television broadcasts a show trial that condemns Ceausescu and his wife to death. The execution takes place on…
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I’m not an activist. About Laia Abril’s photobook “On Abortion”
“On Abortion” by Laia Abril begins with cuttings from a 19th-century press. The offers include Mrs. Birds, offers female ‘renewing’ pills from Germany, available on Duane Street. Also appears Mrs. Restell, a New York abortionist who performed surgery with her husband on the corner of Fifth Avenue between 1840 and 1850. By the way, the…
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