Church across Early Cotton, Pickinsville, Alabama
William Christenberry
American, 1936–2016

Details
Title
Church across Early Cotton, Pickinsville, Alabama
Artist/Maker
William Christenberry (American, 1936–2016)
Date
1964, printed 1996
Medium
Four-color carbon print
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from Robert Yellowlees
Accession #
2014.124
On View
Currently not on view
Christenberry worked with several different kinds of cameras throughout his career, but he made his first pictures with a Kodak Brownie—a rudimentary camera outfitted with a basic plastic lens—that he had received as a Christmas gift from his parents when he was a child. The Brownie was a ubiquitous amateur camera designed to take snapshots easily. Christenberry had his film processed at a local drugstore, and while the resulting prints were rather soft in focus, as in this photograph of a distant church, they possessed a raw quality that suited his subject matter.
Image Copyright
© (c) William Christenberry
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