William Christenberry on Eye Level
The Smithsonian's art blog, Eye Level, is soliciting questions for a future video interview with pioneering color photographer William Christenberry. I was first introduced to a smattering of Christenberry's work PMA last fall. The images there were small color prints, made with a Kodak brownie. Images centered up, mostly of the "vernacular architecture", as they say, of his native Alabama, taken without intent for broader display and made as part of the larger fabric of his work.
Check out his sculpturs and his paintings and drawings. If you just see his photographs your are missing out on the scope and depth of his work. I don't think his photographs work with out the paintings and sculpturs.
You're 100% correct, Addison. I did say his photos were "made as part of the larger fabric of his work." Christenberry's art is an integration of many media, and he says as much in the Webcast referenced over at Eye Level.