Chicken catcher herding chickens for capture and shipment to the slaughterhouse, Chatham County, NC
Artist
Rob Amberg
American, born 1947
Date1987; printed 2004
MediumGelatin-silver print
Dimensionsheight and width (paper): 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
image: 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm)
frame: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (42.5 × 52.7 × 3.8 cm)
image: 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm)
frame: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (42.5 × 52.7 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art
Object number2004.8.5
On View
Not on viewThis is one of six works in the NCMA collection from The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture, an ongoing project that documents a way of life that is slowly disappearing in the South—the life of the small farmer.
[L. Dougherty, 2007]
ProvenanceCreated Chatham County, NC, 1987, printed 2004; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 2004.
Published ReferencesQuartet: Four North Carolina Photographers (New London, NH and Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2005), illustrated, unnumbered page.
Linda Dougherty, "Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum's Collection," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Sept/Oct 2006), illus. 6.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Contemporary NC Photography from the Museum's Collection," (part 1) September 3-November 5, 2006.
Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), "Contemporary North Carolina Photographs from the North Carolina Museum of Art," October 28, 2007-March 2, 2008.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Close to Home,” February 14–August 10, 2014.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Panorama: North Carolina,” October 8, 2016–February 12, 2017. Object Rights Statement
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