Details

Title

Corn Sign with Storm Cloud, Near Greensboro, Alabama

Artist/Maker

William Christenberry (American, 1936–2016)

Date

1977, printed 1981

Medium

Dye imbibition print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Robert Yellowlees

Accession #

2014.120

On View

Currently not on view

When Christenberry made his first forays into photography, color was largely the province of refined commercial practitioners and weekend snapshooters. Serious fine art photographers tended to shy away from color materials in favor of the reduced tones of black and white. Because Christenberry had come to photography by way of an interest in vernacular image making, his use of materials deemed outside the realm of fine art was apt. By the late 1970s, when the established photography world firmly embraced color, he was already a seasoned master adept at capturing chromatic harmonies, exemplified by this photograph of a roadside sign.

Image Copyright

© (c) William Christenberry

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