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Chicken catcher herding chickens for capture and shipment to the slaughterhouse, Chatham County, NC
Chicken catcher herding chickens for capture and shipment to the slaughterhouse, Chatham County, NC

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)
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 view
ProvenanceCreated Chatham County, NC, 1987, printed 2004; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 2004.
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