Christian Patterson

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Christian Patterson
House on fire.jpg
Photograph from Christian Patterson's Redheaded Peckerwood series
Born1972 (age 49–50)
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSelf-taught [1]
Notable work
Sound Affects series
Redheaded Peckerwood series
Website christianpatterson.com

Christian Patterson (born 1972, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an American photographer known for his Sound Affects and Redheaded Peckerwood series which have received solo exhibitions and been published as books. Redheaded Peckerwood was awarded the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award in 2012 [2] and Patterson has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship [3] and the Vevey International Photography Award. [4]

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Biography

In 2002, Patterson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee to work with the photographer William Eggleston. [5] [6] In 2005, he completed his first project, Sound Affects, a collection of color photographs that explore Memphis as a visual and musical place, and use light and color as visual analogues to sound and music. In 2008, a Sound Affects book was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf.

Also in 2005, Patterson began working on his second project, Redheaded Peckerwood, which is loosely inspired by the late 1950s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate across Nebraska. Photographs are the heart of this work, but they are complemented and informed by documents and objects[ vague ] that belonged to the killers and their victims. Later that year, Patterson moved back to New York.

In 2011, a Redheaded Peckerwood book was published by Mack and named one of the best photobooks of the year by many critics. [7] The book was nominated for the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards [8] and won the 2012 Recontres d'Arles Author Book Award. [2] It is introduced in The Photobook: A History, Vol. 3, edited by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr. [9]

In 2015, Patterson completed Bottom of the Lake, a project revisiting his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (French for "Bottom of the Lake"). A book was published by Koenig Books and takes the form of a facsimile of the artist's family's 1973 telephone book from Fond du Lac, with Patterson's own photographs, drawings and notes inserted. Like Redheaded Peckerwood, this new work mixes large-format colour landscapes, black-and-white snapshots, appropriated and manipulated archival images, and studio still lifes. As an installation and exhibition, the work includes an interactive rotary telephone object and wooden sculpture.

Publications

By Patterson

With others

Solo exhibitions

Awards

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References

Notes
  1. ↑ Although the ISBN has remained the same, Patterson made changes from the first edition to the second, and from the second to the third. "The changes in the editions of Redheaded Peckerwood are small enough to argue for either static or evolving photobooks". [10]
Citations
  1. ↑ "Bio & CV". Christian Patterson. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 O'Hagan, Sean (July 9, 2012). "Torgovnik's powerful portraits from Rwanda take top prize at Arles". London: The Guardian . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows" . Retrieved January 29, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Ming, Ye (May 26, 2015). "Christian Patterson Wins Vevey International Photography Award". Time . Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Christian Patterson". October 28, 2019. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead". February 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ Feustel, Marc (December 20, 2011). "Photobooks 2011: And the Winner is..." Eyecurious.
  8. ↑ "2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards". World Photography Organisation. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ Parr, Martin; Badger, Gerry (2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume III. London: Phaidon. pp. 279, 309. ISBN   978-0-7148-6677-2.
  10. ↑ Colberg, Jörg (May 2, 2013). "Redheaded Peckerwood, III and some thoughts on photobook editions". Conscientious. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Subscription Series 4". TBW Books. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Lost Home" . Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Southside Gallery". Artfacts.
  14. ↑ "Delta Axis, Memphis".
  15. ↑ "Sound Affects – Christian Patterson – Exhibitions". Yancey Richardson.
  16. ↑ "Exhibitions". Robert Koch Gallery.
  17. ↑ "Christian Patterson – Redheaded Peckerwood + Sound Affects". Robert Morat Galerie.
  18. ↑ "Review: Christian Patterson on the tenuousness of knowing". Los Angeles Times. July 18, 2013.
  19. ↑ "Christian Patterson – Bottom of the Lake". Robert Morat Galerie.
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