Front Door of Green Warehouse, Newbern, AL
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Front Door of Green Warehouse, Newbern, AL
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
William Christenberry
American, 1936–2016
American, 1936–2016
Date
1989, printed ca. 2001
Medium
Dye coupler print
Accession #
2014.110
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Not on View
Description
Christenberry’s approach to photographing the Green Warehouse demonstrates an uncommon amount of compositional experimentation. Where he tended to photograph his other subjects frontally, he regularly deconstructed the formal elements of this unusual peaked building into basic geometric shapes and subtle textures produced by the deep-green corrugated metal. The Green Warehouse is also distinct within Christenberry’s archive in that it appears to undergo very little change over the many years he photographed it.
Credit
Gift of the artistImage Copyright
(c) William Christenberry