Gourd Tree, Near Akron, Alabama

Creator

American Photographer · 1936–2016

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