Issue 48 William Christenberry The cover image for this issue of Artkrush is a detail of a paper sculpture by William Christenberry. Titled Ghost Form, this pop-up structure appeared in the second issue of art magazine Esopus in 2004. To create what is possibly the first magazine sculpture, the artist re-imagined a house from his childhood in Hale County, Alabama. Esopus started with Tod Lippy, who first produced the twice-yearly magazine in the fall of 2003. The $10 tome contains no advertisements, always comes with a CD, and often contains a poster and an artist's project. Beginning in November 2007, Esopus will be found at Barnes & Noble, Borders, most independent bookstores, newsstands, and internationally. Christenberry, a photographer, sculptor, and painter, is represented by New York's Pace/MacGill Gallery and has had solo shows this past summer at both the Aperture Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Christenberry's photographic career began with encouragement from famed photographer Walker Evans. The two met in New York, when Christenberry was making abstract-expressionist paintings from photographs he took with a Kodak Brownie camera. Seeing these small, color photographs, Evans pushed Christenberry to explore the medium, and the two traveled to Hale County together in 1973, where Evans had documented the Depression almost 40 years earlier. In 1977, Christenberry switched to a large-format camera and became a pioneer of fine-art color photography. He often accompanies his explorations of both existing and imagined buildings with carefully made models. Most famous for his Southern photographs, Christenberry has a long-standing and controversial interest in the Klu Klux Klan. He captures their rituals, creates costumed dolls, and collects Klan artifacts. He told Afterimage, "I am not just speaking out about the Klan but about injustice and racism…. It is not pro-terror or pro-Klan, but the work walks a thin line between being understood and misunderstood and for a long time no one would touch it." Underneath his classic Americana surface, Christenberry is a subversive, cultural provocateur. (LM) William Christenberry Ghost Form, 2004 Featured in Esopus, Issue 2 Pop-up sculpture Courtesy Esopus All Rights Reserved