Photos by Luther Smith

Check out these photographs at:
http://www.luthersmith.net/index.html

The landscape photos are what I like the best on this site.  The photographs of people were taken using infrared film which gives the eyes a very strange look!

Photographer Michael Eastman

Check out his photos at:
http://eastmanimages.com/vanishing-america

YouTube Link

Here is a link to a video with William Christenberry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwmZZZoU_gs

My Photos

These are photos I am taking for my project emulating William Christenberry. Old signs, old houses, and dead trees have been subjects I like to include in my art work already. I am enthralled by the textures and unexpected beauty.

More Photos from William Christenberry

"Royal Crown Cola", near Aliceville, Alabama, 1973

"Corn Sign with Storm Cloud", near Greensboro, Alabama, 1977

Photographs by William Christenberry

Project 3

    Project 3 is to pick a photographer to emulate.  I have picked William Christenberry who was mainly a sculptor and painter in the Abstract Expressionism movement.  Christenberry began taking photographs in Alabama around Hale County where Walker Evans took documentary style photographs.  When Christenberry met Evans, Evans encouraged him to continue taking photos of the area around where he grew up in Alabama.  Christenberry's photographs consist of old signs and the progression of dilapidation of old buildings and homes over the span of multiple annual pictures. 

Source:  "Orders of Memory: Photography in the Art of William Christenberry", Andy Grundberg in the book, William Christenberry.