Railroad station, Selma, Alabama
1973, printed 1974
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
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 (Anonymous gift)
Accession Number
2015.19.4335
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...