Christian Patterson

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Template:Short description Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Christian Patterson (born 1972)[1] is an American interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, books, and installation. He is known for his books and exhibitions Sound Affects, Redheaded Peckerwood, Bottom of the Lake, and Gong Co. Redheaded Peckerwood was awarded the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award in 2012,[2] a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013,[3] and the Vevey International Photography Award in 2015.[4]

Early life

Patterson was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA.[5]

Biography

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Patterson is a self-taught photographer.[6] In 2002, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee to work with the photographer William Eggleston.[7][8] From 2002 to 2005, Patterson lived in Memphis. 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.

In 2003, while driving from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, Patterson discovered a Chinese-American grocery store in Merigold, Mississippi. The place would become the inspiration for a 20-year project, Gong Co.

In 2005, Patterson began working on his second project, Redheaded Peckerwood, which is 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 archival documents, hand-painted signs, shotgun-blasted paper boards, and readymade objects. Some of the documents and objects belonged to the killers and their victims, and were found in newspaper and governmental archives or found by Patterson when interviewing local residents or visiting former crime scenes. Later that same year, Patterson moved back to New York. From 2005 to 2011, he visited Nebraska five times, traveling the 500-mile path of the story.

In 2011, Redheaded Peckerwood was published by Mack, named one of the best photography books of the year by many critics,[9] nominated for the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards,[10] and won the 2012 Recontres d'Arles Author Book Award.[2] It is also featured in The Photobook: A History, Vol. 3, edited by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr.[11] The second edition included an expanded booklet and there were differences in the printing, and the third edition introduced more changes to the booklet and added newly-sourced archival images.[12]

In 2015, Bottom of the Lake was published by Koenig Books. The project revisits Patterson's hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (French for "Bottom of the Lake") and takes the form of a facsimile of his family's copy of the 1973 Fond du Lac Telephone Directory. Patterson added his own photographs, drawings, and marginalia to the book. Like Redheaded Peckerwood, this new work mixes large-format landscapes, 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.

In 2024, Gong Co. was copublished by TBW Books and Éditions Images Vevey. The work takes its inspiration from a Chinese-American grocery store in the Mississippi Delta whose shelves remained stocked with decades-old products.[4]. Patterson has exhibited materials found in Gong Co., mixing his photographs with actual store ephemera.[13]

Publications

Publications by Patterson

Publications with others

Solo exhibitions

  • Another Time, Another Place, and You, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS, 2003[17]
  • Sound Affects, Power House, Memphis, TN, 2005;[18] Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 2006[19]
  • Sound Affects, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2007[20]
  • Sound Affects, Kaune, Sudendorf Contemporary, Cologne, Germany
  • Sound Affects & Redheaded Peckerwood, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, 2012[21]
  • Redheaded Peckerwood, Robert Morat, Berlin, Germany, 2012
  • Redheaded Peckerwood, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013[22]
  • Redheaded Peckerwood, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH, 2014
  • Bottom of the Lake, Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2015[23]
  • Gong Co., Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland, 2016.
  • Gong Co., Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2025

Awards

References

Notes

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  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".[14]
Citations

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Christian Patterson (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)". The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.O'Hagan, Sean (July 9, 2012). "Torgovnik's powerful portraits from Rwanda take top prize at Arles". The Guardian. London. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows". Retrieved January 29, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ming, Ye (May 26, 2015). "Christian Patterson Wins Vevey International Photography Award". Time. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Christian Patterson - The Los Angeles Center of Photography". lacphoto.org. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bio & CV". Christian Patterson. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview with Christian Patterson". October 28, 2019. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead". February 19, 2013.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Feustel, Marc (December 20, 2011). "Photobooks 2011: And the Winner is..." Eyecurious.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards". World Photography Organisation. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Parr, Martin; Badger, Gerry (2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume III. London: Phaidon. pp. 279, 309. ISBN 978-0-7148-6677-2.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coelberg, Joerg. "Redheaded Peckerwood, III and some thoughts on photobook editions". Conscientious. Retrieved February 4, 2026.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Amison, Peggy Sue. "Christian Patterson: "Gong Co." Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin". Dear Dave. Retrieved February 4, 2026.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Colberg, Jörg (May 2, 2013). "Redheaded Peckerwood, III and some thoughts on photobook editions". Conscientious. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Subscription Series 4". TBW Books. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lost Home". Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Southside Gallery". Artfacts.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Delta Axis, Memphis".
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sound Affects – Christian Patterson – Exhibitions". Yancey Richardson.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Exhibitions". Robert Koch Gallery.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Christian Patterson – Redheaded Peckerwood + Sound Affects". Robert Morat Galerie.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Review: Christian Patterson on the tenuousness of knowing". Los Angeles Times. July 18, 2013.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Christian Patterson – Bottom of the Lake". Robert Morat Galerie.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.pkfstg (July 31, 2025). "Pollock-Krasner Foundation Announces 2024 – 2025 Grants Totaling Over $3.2 Million". PKF. Retrieved November 5, 2025.

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