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Child's Grave with Rosebuds, Hale County, Alabama
Creator
William ChristenberryAmerican Photographer · 1936–2016
All works by this person →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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- 1975
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c40c0d3d-2380-4d1d-b716-210e4c8afd70
A single row of plastic roses stuck into the dirt, between two plain boards, to mark a child's grave.
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