Christenberry

Local artist and photographer William Christenberry.

William Christenberry to be honored 2011

Year after year, Christenberry has returned to Hale County, Ala. and found meaning and magic in churches, advertising signs and honky-tonks.

William Christenberry to be honored 2011

In 1936, while Evans was photographing in and around Hale County, Alabama, William Christenberry was born in nearby Tuscaloosa.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Sean O 2010

Bexhill on Sea photography "Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South" explores the depiction and documentation of life in the U.S. south with pictures by Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems and others. de la Warr Pavilion

What's on Around Europe 2010

Dexter Christenberry isn't giving money, clothes or water to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

In 1973, Christenberry persuaded Evans to accompany him on one of his regular road trips to Hale County, which Evans had not visited for 37 years.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Sean O 2010

"Walker kept his distance," Christenberry would later say.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Sean O 2010

In photography, the American south has been viewed from the inside by native southerners such as Eggleston, William Christenberry and Eudora Welty (who was a very good photographer before she became a great writer) and from the outside, most famously by Walker Evans in the 1930s, and by the likes of Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth and Susan Lipper in more recent times.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Sean O 2010

There are echoes here of the old south of plantations and slow-flowing rivers, but also traces of the work of other, older photographers, including Evans, Christenberry and Eggleston.

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South Sean O 2010

Abandoned houses, rusting silos and neglected tobacco fields suggest the slowly disintegrating milieu of a zombie movie as might be lensed by William Christenberry .

A Wide World of Voices Steve Dollar 2012