As a child, William Christenberry, who died last November, would spend his summer holidays in Hale County, Alabama, a few miles outside his hometown of Tuscaloosa. Even after he had settled on the East Coast of the United States, he kept returning throughout his life to the region that was his main source of inspiration and a recurrent subject of his photographs.
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