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Red Building in Forest, Hale County, Alabama
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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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- 1994
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
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- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
William Christenberry began photographing this makeshift wooden structure in his native Alabama in 1974. Since that time, he has made nearly annual trips to document the facade of this isolated dwelling, located deep in the Talladega National Forest. Such vernacular structures were uncommon photographic subjects until Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, William Eggleston, and other twentieth-century photographers elevated their stature. Like the edifices photographed by Eugène Atget, Bernd and HIlla Becher, and others, the buildings Christenberry recorded in the southern United States were often in disrepair and in danger of disappearing altogether.
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