Beale Street

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Beale Street

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William Christenberry

American Photographer · 1936–2016

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For most of his career, William Christenberry made an annual pilgrimage from his home in Washington, D.C. to the red-clay soil of his youth in central Alabama, where he documented and was inspired by its rural landscape. Living away from the South enabled him to respond viscerally--through paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography--to sites of deep meaning for him. Although Christenberry lon

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Date
negative about 1963–1964; print 1979
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Books
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Object ID
0a30b5a1-0d26-4565-b9f9-32cabe06edf2

Beale Street is a book (with slipcover) of ten chromogenic prints, all depicting signs and storefronts in a particular neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, where William Christenberry lived from 1963-1968.

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