House and Car, Near Akron, Alabama
William Christenberry
American, 1936–2016
Details
Title
House and Car, Near Akron, Alabama
Artist/Maker
William Christenberry (American, 1936–2016)
Date
1981, printed 1988
Medium
Dye coupler print
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from Robert Yellowlees
Accession #
2014.122
Location
Currently not on view
At the suggestion of fellow photographer Lee Friedlander, Christenberry began photographing with a large-format camera in 1977. This simple change in equipment enabled subtle but significant shifts in his photographs. The larger camera not only created sharper, more detailed negatives that rendered color more vibrantly, but the optical mechanics also allowed Christenberry to give greater consideration to his compositional strategies and opened the way for experimentation with deeper picture planes that accentuated transitions between foreground, middle ground, and background, as seen in this work.
Image Copyright
© (c) William Christenberry