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above image: ‘Kudzu Devouring Building, near Greensboro, Alabama, 2004’
\nPhoto by WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – & – the front image on … <\/p>\n
.. the card for the exhibit: ‘WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – Photographs 1961- 2005’
\n‘A poetic documentation of the American South’, the summer exhibit at:
\nAPERTURE GALLERY, JULY 7 – AUGUST 17, 2006<\/p>\n
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above image scanned from the aperture SPRING 2006 BOOK catalog – front cover WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY (center, in white suit) at the opening of his William Christenberry was born in 1936. That makes him 70 and he’s One of the more interesting technical aspects of the show, were note<\/em>: PHILIP GEFTER wrote a very compelling and informative article for this “Mr. Christenberry was born in 1936 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, not 20 miles “The sharecroppers in Evans’s photographs lived in a house across the .. anybody out there relate to this !! Apparently it was a good experience.
\nPhoto: WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY, ‘Palmist Building (Summer),
\nHavana Junction, Alabama, 1980’ – from the publication William Christenberry <\/em><\/p>\n![\"William](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/William_Christenberry.jpg\")
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\nsummer 2006 exhibit, ‘WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY – Photographs 1961-2005’
\nat the Aperture Foundation Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, July 6, 2006
\nPhoto: Nancy Smith<\/p>\n
\ntotally sharp, right on and super relevant. He has been a professor at
\nthe Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1968.<\/p>\n
\nthe archival ‘snapshot’ KODAK BROWNIE camera prints.
\nBack in the day, ca 1940-50, first in black and white, and apparently in
\ncolor on thru the 60’s, young kids, teens and famillies, used the
\n‘amateur’ BROWNIE cameras, to take ‘snapshots’ – the way cell phone
\n and digital cameras are in use today. Mr. Christenberry went on to
\nuse 35mm and 8-by-10 cameras. It’s super interesting to see the
\ndifferent final photo productions from the varying photo equipment
\nand film processing.<\/p>\n
\nexhibit in THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 2006 – if you missed it –
\nhere’s how it began:<\/p>\n
\naway from the migrant farmers (Walker) Evans photographed that same year
\nand later published in “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men<\/em>” with text
\nby James Agee.<\/p>\n
\ncotton fields from the farm owned by Mr. Christenberry’s grandparents.
\nBy the time Mr. Christenberry discovered the book, in 1960, he was a
\nyoung artist. When he moved to New York the next year, it took him
\nmonths to work up the courage to call Evans, then picture editor at Fortune …”<\/p>\n
\nEvans encouraged Mr. Christenberry, even to the extent that he told him to leave
\nNew York and return to the South and continue his work. Mr Christenberry,
\nfor his part, was smart enough to heed really good advice when he got it,
\nand by 1962 he was back South in Memphis.<\/p>\n