Kodachromes Limited-Edition Box Set

William Christenberry: Kodachromes is the first publication to showcase the artist's stunning and previously unknown body of work produced with 35 mm Kodachrome slide film. Spanning from 1964 to 2007, only a small number of the images have ever been published or exhibited. As in all of Christenberry's photographs, the subject matter is the rural Deep South: the twisting back roads, open landscapes, rusted signage, and ramshackle vernacular architecture found in Hale County, Alabama where the artist was born and raised. Though many of the sites pictured in this rare collection are new, other subjects grew iconic in Christenberry's oeuvre, as he has returned to photograph them for decades.

The set will include one dye-transfer print, Store with Soft Drink Signs, and a signed copy of Kodachromes, presented in a beautiful clothbound box.

The dye-transfer print in this boxed set has been hand-made with the utmost care and precision using the classic dye imbibition 3-color separation and assembly process. Fade-resistant cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes are transferred into the gelatin-coated surface of a fiber-based double weight paper, yielding a true continuous-tone color photograph. Genuine Eastman Kodak materials were used in the making of this print. This boxed set is limited to twenty-five copies.

Dye Transfer Print accompanied by hardcover book, Kodachromes, presented in a clamshell case
Print Title: Store with Soft Drink Signs, Greensboro, Alabama, 1973
Image Size: 5 5/16 x 7 5/8 inches
Paper Size: 11 5/16 x 9 5/16 inches
Edition of 25 + 5 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

William Christenberry (b. 1936, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; d. 2016, Washington, D.C.) drew artistic inspiration from his youth in Hale County, Alabama. He received a BFA in 1958 and an MFA in 1959 from the University of Alabama, studying under noted abstract expressionist Melville Price. In 1968, he began teaching at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Though he was better known as a photographer and multi-media artist, Christenberry taught painting. Christenberry’s work concentrated on architectural structures, nature, and the effects of place and memory. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide and is the subject of several monographs.