Coleman's Cafe, Greensboro, Alabama
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 7.94 × 12.38 cm (3 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.) sheet: 8.89 × 13.34 cm (3 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, by exchange: Duncan Phillips)
Accession Number
2015.19.5213
About the Artist
William Christenberry
William Christenberry (1936–2016) was an American artist whose career-long obsession with a small region of rural Alabama transformed the documentation of a place into one of the most sustained and poetic bodies of work in contemporary American art. Born in Hale County, Alabama — the same landscape made famous by James Agee and Walker Evans in their 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — Christe...