Artist
Rob Amberg American, born 1947
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Chicken Catcher, Chatham County, North Carolina
Date1987
PlaceNorth Carolina, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 12 1/16 in. (20.3 × 30.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.6 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.6 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number93.76
Not on view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
From early in his career, Rob Amberg was interested in photography’s potential to be used as an implement of social change. When he moved to Madison County, North Carolina, in 1973, he began a decades-long project of making socially engaged documentary photographs of his new home and community, focusing on the interactions between rural agricultural life and the environment.
ProvenanceThe artist; given to MFAH, 1993.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower left corner in pencil " 'Chicken catcher, Chatham County, NC' "
verso center bottom edge in pencil "© Rob Amberg 1987"
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