Door
1973
Digital pigment print
22 x 16"

William Christenberry (b. 1936) is a photographer, painter and sculptor born in Hale County, Alabama. He earned both his BFA and MFA from The University of Alabama and has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, since 1968. Whether working in photography, painting, drawing or sculpture, Christenberry’s interest in the themes and traditions of the rural American South translates into simple yet monumental iconography. On both formal and conceptual levels, his work focuses on the prolonged study of a place. For example, in the process of documenting the evolution of a building and its surroundings over time, Christenberry provides a chronicle of that structure’s evolving identity. His work not only captures the essence of a particular region’s heritage, it is also a meditation upon the universal experience of stasis and change.