Rob Amberg (NC, b. 1947), Auction, Bishopville, South Carolina, 1987

Gelatin silver print, 1987, pencil signed and titled to verso, also with ink stamps from the artist and the Rural Advancement Fund to verso, unframed.

Sheet size 10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.

Private Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

Rob Amberg's work documents communities, landscapes, and vernacular culture in the Appalachian region. Working primarily in western North Carolina since the 1970s, Amberg has focused on long-term, collaborative projects that examine place, memory, and social change. His best-known bodies of work include the Sodom Laurel Album, a multi-decade photographic and oral history project centered on a Madison County community, and Flood along the River of Heaven, documenting the 2004 floods in southern Appalachia.

Two very faint surface rubs only visible in raking light; two marks from previous hinging isolated to top margin corners.