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 viewPublished 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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