[PW] photographer profiled in The Smithsonian--possible identification

[Bob Boyce]

Mike--  Perhaps this is what is wanted?
Time After Time. By: Butler, Carolyn Kleiner, Smithsonian, 00377333, Jan2007, Vol. 37, Issue 10
From the abstract of the article:
FOR YEARS, WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY saw the Bar-B-Q Inn only with its windows shuttered. Yet Christenberry kept going back, for more than 20 years.

One day in 1971, Christenberry stood in the middle of the road and snapped pictures with his Brownie camera, pausing only to dodge the occasional car. Over the years, he traced the mark of time on the Bar-B-Q Inn (eventually trading his Brownie for a large-format camera) until, in 1991, only a concrete slab remained.
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    He has also photographed other sites in Hale County, Alabama:
"There's a sense of loss, of coming to a place you've been visiting for years and realizing that something you took as permanent isn't," says Eleanor Harvey, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, home to "Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry," which runs through July and coincides with the release of a new catalog of his multimedia work.

Bob Boyce
Reference Department, Lincoln NE City Libraries
r.boyce at LincolnLibraries.org



-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Strahan" mstrahan at nmu.edu
Sent 1/24/2008 2:05:42 PM
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Subject: [PW] photographer profiled in The Smithsonian

Greetings,
Have I got a stumper for you folks.
One of my patrons is looking for an article she believes was
published in The Smithsonian. I already searched both
Reader'sGuideAbs and the Smithsonian mag web site (internal using Google).
The article was about a photographer who made a career out of
photographing buildings, scenery, locales, etc., and then revisiting
them about every 10 years or so to re-capture changes which occurred.
She does not remember the name of the photographer.
I thought I saw the photographer featured on ABC News (perhaps Person
of the Week), but could not find.
thanks,
mike
Mike Strahan, Associate Professor
Reference/Instruction Coordinator, and Library Distance Education
Services Librarian
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Northern Michigan University
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