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Forty Years of Photography of Alabama
Aperture
April 2006
On Sale: April 20, 2006
203 pages
ISBN: 1931788898
EAN: 9781931788892
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the
regional identity of the American South through his work in
Hale County, Alabama, where he was raised. Although he is
most often associated with--and recognized as a pioneer
in--American color photography, he also works in an
unorthodox mix of media that includes sculpture, drawing,
painting and found-object assemblage. This comprehensive
survey of his work considers all those practices together,
and in doing so gives readers access to the full scope and
complexity of his vision. In every medium, Christenberryís
theme is unified: the history, the story of place, is at the
heart of his project. His poetic documentation of vernacular
architecture, signage and landscape captures moments of
quiet beauty in a sometimes mythic terrain that, with its
worn iconography and buildings turned ramshackle, evokes the
form and power of the passage of time. Since relocating to
Washington, D.C., in 1968, Christenberry has dutifully
returned to photograph the same locations annually--the
green barn, the palmist building, the Bar-B-Q
Inn--fulfilling a personal ritual and documenting the
physical changes wrought by the passing of a year. More than
half the photographs in this comprehensive survey are
previously unpublished, including new and vintage images and
a stunning selection of never-before-seen Kodachrome work.
An essay by Walter Hopps, the artistís lifelong friend and
the founding director of the Menil Collection, who passed
away in 2005, will draw attention as well.
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