Christopher Williams (born 1956 in Los Angeles) is an American conceptual artist and fine-art photographer[1] who lives in Cologne and works in Düsseldorf.
under the first generation of West Coast conceptual artists[4][5] including John Baldessari, Michael Asher, and Douglas Huebler.
[9][10] In 2000, at an exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, in New York, Williams showed twenty photographs including a series of pictures of a 1964 Renault automobile on its side.
Writing in The New York Times, Ken Johnson said, "the Renault was made in a French factory where significant revolutionary activities took place in 1968; hence it is tipped up like a barricade.
"[4] Williams' photographs oftentimes show increasingly obsolescent film-based equipment—cameras, lenses and darkroom gear—as beautiful and precise as catalog product shots.