King Cobra, Memphis, Tennessee

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King Cobra, Memphis, Tennessee

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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 1993; print 1995
Medium
Pigment print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
88a5f9e0-8027-4c16-9e5c-00465cd81e71

A neon sign reading "KING COBRA" is mounted in the doorway of a dilapidated, light-green building. the letters R and U are seen in the foreground.

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