Corn Sign with Storm Cloud, near Greensboro, Alabama

In this photograph, William Christenberry offers the viewer an unconventional landscape. The chosen composition seems spontaneous; the projecting corn sign and telephone pole break the rules of a traditional landscape. The form and colors of the corn-on-the-cob is echoed in the intersecting rusting tank behind it. Like much of post-war middle America, the banal location … Continue reading Corn Sign with Storm Cloud, near Greensboro, Alabama