Rob Amberg (NC, b. 1947), Junior Walking Pet to Water, Madison County, NC, 1979

Gelatin silver print, 1979, pencil signed and dated August 1992 to verso, verso with artist stamps, unframed.

Sheet size 10 1/2 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.

Some slight sheet waviness.