Background
William Christenberry was born in 1936 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
William Christenberry was born in 1936 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
Christenberry attended the University of Alabama, where he completed a BFA in 1958 and an MA in Painting in 1959.
Since 1974 he has been an art professor at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., where he taught as an associate professor (1968- 74).
In 1976 he was granted an NEA Fellowship in Photography, and in 1978 the Art-in-Architecture Program of the U.S. General Services Administration commissioned him to create a wall work for the Federal Building in Jackson, Mississippi.
Christenberry used Brownie cameras and, since 1977, worked in 35mm and up to 8 x 10.