William Christenberry, 80, Photographer Who Captured Alabama’s Lushness And Decay With A Kodak Brownie

“The small photographs for which he became renowned evoke a vanishing world populated almost solely by dilapidated buildings, rusting automobiles, advertising signs, graves and vegetation growing out of control.” As historian and former NEH chair William Ferris put it, “What Faulkner has done in his fiction, Christenberry has done in his photography.”