Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (The Lyndhurst Series on the South)

A powerful collection of nearly one hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs and an elegiac text portray the workers and managers of the White Furniture Company, a family business that was forced to shut down after a century in business. Tour.

Bill Bamberger's work has been widely published and exhibited across the country. A recipient of the Lyndhurst Prize, he teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Mebane, North Carolina. Cathy Davidson is the author and editor of over a dozen books and a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. Past president of the American Studies Association, she is currently Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.