DECEMBER 2014
Group Exhibition
For Your Eyes Only, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
NOVEMBER 2014
Group Exhibition
Open Book Revisited 2004-2014, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
Paris Photo
Robert Morat Galerie will be debuting selected work from Bottom of the Lake at Paris Photo (Stand A47), including the Fond du Lac Telephone.
Harper’s Books will have the Fond du Lac Telephone Directory artist book at Paris Photo (Stand EE7).
Participating in “Look at That!” — a part of the Paris Photo Platform series of events. Saturday, November 15 between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the Grand Palais.
Fond du Lac Telephone
Paris Photo 2014 installation.
Fond du Lac Telephone Directory
The Fond du Lac Telephone Directory is a limited edition artist book, and a 244-page facsimile of the telephone book printed for Christian Patterson’s hometown after his birth. The book is inserted with original notes, drawing, photographs and found materials, and marked with autobiographical notes and references, doodles, jokes and other marginalia.
Photography Performs at CPIF, France
Selected work from Redheaded Peckerwood is included in “Photography Performs” at Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France (CPIF), October 4 to December 14, 2014.
Press
Somerstein, Rachel. ‘Reenvisioning Reality,” Art + Auction, October 2014.
“Truman’s Welt,” Die Zeit, 9 Oct 2014.
JUNE 2014
Publication
Imprint: Visual Narratives in Books and Beyond. Art and Theory Publishing: Stockholm.
Press
Genuite, Magali. “Fear Over the City,” Double Magazine, Summer 2014.
MARCH 2014
Redheaded Peckerwood at Transformer Station – Installation Images
March 28–June 14, 2014
Opening reception Friday, March 28, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Redheaded Peckerwood
Transformer Station
1460 West 29th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
Artist Talk at Transformer Station, Saturday, March 29, 2:00 p.m.
Goddamned Matter (Zippo)
A limited-edition of 50 engraved Zippos will be available from the Transformer Station store during the Redheaded Peckerwood exhibition.
The Photobook: A History, Volume III
Redheaded Peckerwood featured in The Photobook: A History, Volume III, the final volume of Gerry Badger and Martin Parr’s curated selection of more than 200 photography books dating from World War II to the present day. (PDF)
FEBRUARY 2014
Talks and Exhibitions
February 12 – Artist Talk, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
March 4 – Artist Talk, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 11 – Artist Talk (with Jason Fulford), Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
March 29 – Solo Exhibition, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
April 1 – Artist Talk, Cooper Union, New York, NY
May 12-16 – Workshop, Vevey School of Photography, Vevey, Switzerland
Press
Ortlieb, Pierre. “Visual Artist Discusses Recent Work,” Yale Daily News, 05 Mar 2014.
Soubrier, Antoine. “Zineland,” L’Oeil de la Photographie, 28 Feb 2014.
Vecten, Laurence, “Christian Patterson: Bottom of the Lake,” One Year of Books, 19 Feb 2014.
JANUARY 2014
Press
Sutcliffe, Lisa. “Christian Patterson: Bottom of the Lake,” 1000 Words, 27 Jan 2014.
Aletti, Vince. “Photo Books,” Photograph, Jan-Feb 2014.
Kelly, Ann. “Best Books 2013,” Photo-Eye, Jan 2014.
DECEMBER 2013
Publication
Romka #8: The Stories Behind Our Favorite Photographs. Romka: Munich.
Press
Azoury, Phillippe. “Au Revoir 2013,” Discipline in Disorder, 29 Dec 2013.
NOVEMBER 2013
Lost Home
A new book by Christian Patterson, and part of Super Labo‘s set of ten artist books featuring Harvey Benge, JH Engstrom, Roe Ethridge, Takashi Homma, Ron Jude, Daido Moriyama, Christian Patterson, Slavica Perkovic, Bertien van Manen and Terri Weifenbach. Launching at Paris Photo 2013.
Book Signings During Paris Photo
Thursday, November 14, 2013, 5:00 p.m.
LOST HOME book signing
Super Labo stand, Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris
Friday, November 15, 5:00 p.m.
LOST HOME book signing
Colette, 213 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris
Friday, November 15, 9:00 p.m.
Redheaded Peckerwood book signing
Silencio, 144 rue Montmartre, Paris
Saturday, November 16, 6:00 p.m.
Redheaded Peckerwood book signing
MACK stand, Offprint, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris
Group Exhibitions
LOST HOME
Featuring work by Harvey Benge, JH Engstrom, Roe Ethridge, Takashi Homma, Ron Jude, Daido Moriyama, Christian Patterson, Slavica Perkovic, Bertien van Manen and Terri Weifenbach.
November 4–30, 2013
Reception and book signing Friday, November 15, 5:00 p.m.
Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris
Of the Ordinary
Featuring work by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Alyse Emdur, Ron Jude, Jason Lazarus, Christian Patterson, and Ofer Wolberger. Curated by Christopher Gianunzio, Assistant Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
November 8-December 14, 2013
Opening reception Friday, November 08, 2013, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY 14607
Press
Matutschovsky, Natalie. “TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013,” TIME, 25 Nov 2013.
Bush, Lewis. “Christian Patterson,” Of the Afternoon, Winter 2013.
Barker, Gregory. “Christian Patterson: Bottom of the Lake,” Hotshoe, Winter 2013.
OCTOBER 2013
Bottom of the Lake Book
With Bottom of the Lake, Christian Patterson revisits his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (French for “Bottom of the Lake”) and weaves together visual threads related to his personal history and the town’s history, geography, climate and culture. Part of TBW Books’ Subscription Series #4, featuring Raymond Meeks, Christian Patterson, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Wolfgang Tillmans.
TBW Books, 2013
Hardcover, printed paper dust jacket wrapped around book board
9 X 12 inches (23 x 30 cm)
40 pages, 33 images
Order online at TBW Books
Artist Talks
October 31, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Carlson Auditorium
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Info
October 24, 2013, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Midwest Society for Photographic Education (Keynote Speaker)
Ballroom, Embassy Suites, Lincoln, NE
Group Exhibition
October 5, 2013
Proxecto Fotolibros, Outono Fotográfico Festival (at Gallery Dispara), Galicia, Spain
Recent Press
Wolgamott, L. Kent. “Photographer Explores Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate,” Lincoln Journal Star, 24 Oct 2013.
SEPTEMBER 2013
Slideshow
A Redheaded Peckerwood slideshow will be projected in Gillett Square, London during Night Contact, a one-night photography festival taking place across the city on the evening of September 27, 2013.
Recent Press
Samson, Jonah. “Open Book: Christian Patterson + Paul Schiek,” Cool Hunting, 20 Sep 2013.
Lavoie, Vincent. “Legal Re-enactment in Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood,” Esse, Autumn 2013.
Yamashita, Kiichiro. “Redheaded Peckerwood: Christian Patterson,” IMA, Autumn 2013.
Kikuta, Mikiko. “New Documents,” IMA, Autumn 2013.
Bennet, Emma. “Photographically Unconcealing the Crimes: Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood and Heidegger’s Aletheia,” Philosophy of Photography, Sep 2013.
Roels, Bruno. “In De Ban Van Een Slachting,” De Standaard, 31 Aug 2013.
“The Chilling Images in Christian Patterson’s ‘Redheaded Peckerwood,'” All That is Interesting, 31 Aug 2013.
AUGUST 2013
The Redheaded Peckerwood exhibition at Rose Gallery has been extended by one week and will be closing August 10, 2013.
Rose Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building G-5
Santa Monica, CA 90404
JULY 2013
Recent Press
Ollman, Leah. “Christian Patterson on the Tenuousness of Knowing,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Jul 2013.
Jones, Tiffany. “Christian Patterson: On the Case,” fLIP, Summer 2013.
Afterimage (cover), Summer 2013.
Current Exhibition
All Rose Gallery installation images can be viewed here.
JUNE 2013
Solo Exhibition
June 29-August 3, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, June 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Redheaded Peckerwood
Rose Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building G-5
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Book Signing
Thursday, June 27, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Arcana Books on the Arts
@ The Historic Helms Bakery
8675 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Recent Acquisitions
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Recent Press
Bengal, Rebecca. “Object Lessons: A Conversation with Christian Patterson,” The Paris Review, 24 Jun 2013.
MAY 2013
Group Exhibition
May 17–September 8, 2013
ICP Triennial (Reading Room)
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
May 24-August 24, 2013
Where I’m Calling From
Transformer Station
Cleveland, OH
Selections from the Collection of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell, curated by Todd Hido. Including work by Jessica Backhaus, Zoe Crosher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Learoyd, Stephen Shore, Will Steacy and Hellen van Meene among others.
Recent Acquisitions
Collection agnès b., Paris, France
The Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Book Signing
7:00 p.m., May 23, 2013
Claire de Rouen
125 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0EW, United Kingdom
Press
“Upcoming Photographers Around the World,” IMA, Summer 2013.
“Best Photobooks of the 2010s,” IMA, Summer 2013.
Colberg, Jörg. “Redheaded Peckerwood III,” Conscientious, 2 May 2013.
Noll, Ute. “Mosaik des Grauens,” Photographie, May 2013.
APRIL 2013
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Christian Patterson has been awarded a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Art Fairs
April 26-28, 2013
Selections from Redheaded Peckerwood will be shown by Rose Gallery at Paris Photo L.A. 2013 in Los Angeles. Stage 5, Booth 11.
April 4-7, 2013
Selections from Redheaded Peckerwood will be shown by Robert Morat Galerie at AIPAD 2013 in New York. Booth 411.
Press
Magnenat, Pauline. “A Studio Visit with Christian Patterson,” All of this is Rocket Science, 8 Apr 2013.
Pastrovich, Jacob. “Christian Patterson,” BOMBLOG, 18 Mar 2013.
MARCH 2013
Talks and Workshops
March 15-17, 2013
Workshop, MiCamera, Milan, Italy
March 14, 2013
Artist talk, MiCamera, Milan Italy
March 9-10, 2013
Workshop, BlankPaper Escuela de Fotografía, Madrid, Spain
March 8, 2013
Artist talk, BlankPaper Escuela de Fotografía, Madrid, Spain
FEBRUARY 2013
Redheaded Peckerwood Third Edition
“Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood is one of the publications which defines the recent era of photobook publishing. In this the third edition, further improvements, changes and additions have been made by the author to continue his evolution of the project, including an altered sequence incorporating new images, additional pages and a separate facsimile postcard.” – MACK press release, January 2013
Group Exhibitions
February 21–March 23, 2013
Everyday America
Steven Kasher Gallery
New York, NY
Including William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Todd Hido, Evelyn Hofer, John Humble, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Helen Levitt, Martin Parr, Christian Patterson, Stephen Shore, Aaron Siskind, Joel Sternfeld, John Szarkowski, Chris Verene, James Welling and Henry Wessel.
February 3-April 14, 2013
Present Tense: The Art of Memphis from 2001-Now
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Memphis, TN
Press
Augschöll, Daniel. “Interview: Christian Patterson,” Ahorn, 25 Feb 2013.
Samson, Jonah. “Interview: Christian Patterson,” Cool Hunting, 19 Feb 2013.
Storm, Christian. “Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead,” VICE, 19 Feb 2013.
Poynor, Rick. “Cold-Blood Runaways,” Eye Magazine, 15 Feb 2013.
David Lynch discussing his favorite photographs at Paris Photo 2012, including Redheaded Peckerwood’s “House at Night” at the 4:15 mark.
JANUARY 2013
Forthcoming Talks and Workshops
February 13, 2013
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
March 15-17, 2013
MiCamera Workshop, Milan, Italy
March 8-10, 2013
Blank Paper Workshop, Madrid, Spain
April 18, 2013
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fall 2013
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Recent Press
“Conversation with Christian Patterson,” Études Studio, 3 Jan 2013.
DECEMBER 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood 3rd Edition Available Early 2013
Solo Exhibition
December 7, 2012-February 9, 2013
Opening 7:00 p.m., Friday, December 7, 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood
Robert Morat Galerie
Schauraum Berlin
Kleine Hamburger Str. 2
10115 Berlin, Germany
Photographer’s Lecture Series at International Center of Photography
7:00 p.m., December 5, 2012 (with a book signing to follow)
International Center of Photography
1133 Ave of the Americas
New York, NY
Register online.
Watch online.
Pulse Miami
Rose Gallery will be showing selections from Redheaded Peckerwood at Pulse Miami 2012, Booth E100.
December 6–9, 2012
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL
Recent Press
Risch, Conor. “Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood,” PDN, Dec 2012.
“20+20,” Installation Magazine, Dec 2012.
“Christian Patterson,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter 2012.
NOVEMBER 2012
The second edition of Redheaded Peckerwood is OUT OF PRINT. A third edition will be available in early 2013 and will include four new images and one new insert.
Paris Photo Exhibitions
Redheaded Peckerwood will be featured by Robert Morat Galerie (Booth A43) and Rose Gallery (Booth C11) and in a group exhibition titled Firewall at Michael Hoppen Gallery (Booth C12).
Paris Photo Seen by David Lynch
Three images from Redheaded Peckerwood have been selected by the artist and filmmaker David Lynch for inclusion in the Paris Photo Seen by David Lynch program and its accompanying catalog published by Steidl.
Paris Photo Book Signings
MACK will have their last remaining publisher copies of the second edition of Redheaded Peckerwood at Paris Photo.
Robert Morat Galerie (Booth A43), Paris Photo, Friday, November 16, 4:00 p.m.
MACK (Booth EE10), Paris Photo, Friday, November 16, 7:00 p.m.
MACK, Offprint, Saturday, November 17, 3:00 p.m.
Rose Gallery (Booth C11), Paris Photo, Sunday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
In Paris During Paris Photo
Selected work from Sound Affects will be included in a group exhibition at agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour.
November 9-22, 2012
Fidélité, Enthousiasme, Découverte
Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
Forthcoming Solo Exhibition
December 7-January 19, 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood
Robert Morat Galerie
Schauraum Berlin
Kleine Hamburger Str. 2
10115 Berlin, Germany
Photographer’s Lecture Series at International Center of Photography
7:00 p.m., December 5, 2012
International Center of Photography
1133 Ave of the Americas
New York, NY
Register online.
Watch online.
Additional Forthcoming Artist Talks
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, November 19, 2012
Blank Paper Escuela, Madrid, Spain, March 2013
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 18, 2013
Photography, Narrative and the Book
A video of “Photography, Narrative and the Book,” a discussion between Michael Mack, Christian Patterson and Luc Sante is now available for free on iTunes U.
Recent Press
A portfolio of Redheaded Peckerwood work is featured in the first issue of Man of the World magazine, on stands now.
OCTOBER 2012
Article:
Langer, Freddy. “An dieser Stelle,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 Oct 2012.
SEPTEMBER 2012
Article:
Badger, Gerry. “Sequencing the Photobook,” The Photobook Review, Fall 2012.
Talk:
Photography, Narrative and the Book
Christian Patterson, Luc Sante and Michael Mack
School of Visual Arts Theater
333 West 23rd Street
New York, NY
7:00 p.m., September 26, 2012
(Book signing to follow)
(Video link)
Article:
Sante, Luc. “Violence, Dissected,” The New York Times, 9 Sep 2012.
With accompanying slideshow.
Click image to see all installation images
Double Solo Exhibition:
Redheaded Peckerwood / Sound Affects
Robert Morat
Hamburg, Germany
Opening: September 6, 2012
Exhibition Dates: September 6-October 27, 2012
Book Exhibition:
Work
FotoGrafia di Roma Festival
MACRO Testaccio
Rome, Italy
Exhibition Dates: September 20-October 28, 2012
AUGUST 2012
Review:
Holthöfer, Tim. “Dokument eines Verbrechens,” Art: das Kunstmagazin, 6 Aug 2012.
JULY 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood has been awarded the prestigious Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award.
Redheaded Peckerwood will be included in The Photobook: A History, Vol. 3, the seminal study of the major trends and movements that have shaped the photobook genre since the birth of photography, as edited by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr and published by Phaidon. Further details forthcoming.
Article:
“2012 Arles Book Prize Winners,” Photo-Eye Blog, 16 Jul 2012.
JUNE 2012
Group Exhibition:
Sommer Accrochage, Kaune, Sudendorf, Cologne, Germany
Publication:
SF Jazz. Edited by Jim Goldberg and Paul Schiek. TBW Books: Oakland.
Artist Talk:
VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium
Rochester, NY
June 28-June 30, 2012
Artist Talk: Saturday June 30, 3:00 p.m.
Interview:
“Redheaded Peckerwood,” The Story (American Public Media), 22 Jun 2012.
Reviews:
Péron, Didier. “Balade sur les traces de ‘Badlands‘,” Libération, 26 Jun 2012.
Blaustein, Jonathan. “This Week in Photography Books: Christian Patterson,” APhotoEditor, 23 Jun 2012.
Article:
“Christian Patterson on the Second Edition of Redheaded Peckerwood,” Photo-Eye Blog, 8 June 2012.
MAY 2012
Reviews:
Ibañez, Sandra Arnáiz. “Redheaded Peckerwood,” Miniguide, 10 May 2012.
Casper, Jim. “Redheaded Peckerwood,” Lens Culture, May 2012.
Interview:
Schles, Ken. “Photographer, Detective, Photobook-Maker,” The Photobook Review, Spring 2012.
APRIL 2012
The second edition of Redheaded Peckerwood is now available at fine bookstores worldwide.
Group Exhibition:
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Exhibition
Somerset House, London, UK
April 27-May 20, 2012
Highly recommended photography books for exhibition as selected by judges Lindsey Stewart, Gerry Badger and Jem Southam, including:
Sophie Calle: Blind, Sophie Calle (Actes Sud)
Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China, Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak, editors (Getty Publications)
Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, Verna Posever Curtis (Aperture Foundation)
Santu Mofokeng: Chasing Shadows: Thirty Years of Photographic Essays, Corinne Diserens (Prestel)
Chromes, William Eggleston (Steidl)
A New Map of Italy, Guido Guidi (Loosestrife Books)
Fred Herzog: Photographs, Fred Herzog (Douglas & McIntryre)
Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, Weston Naef and Christine Hult Lewis (Getty Publications)
Redheaded Peckerwood, Christian Patterson (MACK)
A Criminal Investigation, Watabe Yukichi (Éditions Xavier Barral / Le Bal)
Interview:
Colberg, Jörg. “A Conversation with Christian Patterson,” Conscientious, 9 Apr 2012.
Reviews:
Durden, Mark. “Are We Close?” Source, Spring 2012.
“Remember Me a Story,” Der Greif Foto Magazin,, 3 Apr 2012.
Azoury, Phillippe. “Redheaded Peckerwood: Anatomie d’un fait divers,” Obsession, Apr 2012.
MARCH 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood is on the shortlist for the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. The award will be announced in London on April 26, 2012. An exhibition will be on display at Somerset House for the duration of the World Photography Festival and Exhibition from April 27 to May 20, 2012.
MACK has the second edition of Redheaded Peckerwood in stock. The book should be available in the U.S. in mid-April.
Reviews:
Azoury, Phillippe. “Obsession Part IX: Le Fait Divers,” Vogue Homme, Mar 2012.
Drutt, Matthew. “The Expert Eye: 8 Collectible Works from This Week’s NYC Art Fairs,” ArtInfo, 9 Mar 2012.
Hughes, Barry W. “Redheaded Peckerwood: Fact and Fear,” Hotshoe, Feb/Mar 2012.
Robert Morat Gallery (Hamburg/Berlin) will feature a solo presentation of Redheaded Peckerwood at the VOLTA NY 2012 art fair, Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, March 11, 2012.
Articles:
Colberg, Joerg. “Better by Design: The Role of Design in the Making of Five Modern Photobooks,” British Journal of Photography, 21 Mar 2012.
O’Hagan, Sean. “Photographs Not Taken: What Makes a Photographer Freeze?” The Guardian, 15 Mar 2012.
FEBRUARY 2012
Review:
Hughes, Barry W. “Redheaded Peckerwood: Fact and Fear,” Hotshoe, Feb/Mar 2012.
Group Exhibition:
Of the Ordinary
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
February 9th-April 15th, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 9, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Gallery walk-through with the artists: 6:00-7:00 p.m.
JANUARY 2012
The first edition of Redheaded Peckerwood was released on November 10, 2011. As of January 10, 2012, it is OUT OF PRINT. A second edition is forthcoming.
Redheaded Peckerwood “Best Book” Lists and Reviews:
Slade, George. “Redheaded Peckerwood,” Photo-Eye Magazine, 16 Jan 2012.
Poynor, Rick. “The Photobook as Crime Dossier,” Designers & Books, 13 Jan 2012.
Abbe, Dan. “Best of the Best of 2011,” American Photo, 11 Jan 2012.
“Bookstore Picks: Best of 2011,” The New Museum, 10 Jan 2012.
Coignet, Rémi, “Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood,” Des Livres et des Photos, 9 Jan 2012.
Pham, Caroline. “Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson: A Photographic Tryst in the Skin of a Teenage Murder Duo,” Flaunt, Jan 2012.
DECEMBER 2011
Redheaded Peckerwood “Best Book” Lists and Reviews:
Colberg, Joerg. “Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson,” Conscientious, 30 Dec 2011.
“TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved,” TIME, 29 Dec 2011.
“The Best Books of 2011,” Photo-Eye, 28 Dec 2011.
Maine, Stephen. “12 Notable Books of 2011,” Art in America, 28 Dec 2011.
“Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011,” The New York Times, 27 Dec 2011.
Birnbaum, Robert. “Best Coffee Table Books of 2011,” The Daily Beast, 22 Dec 2011.
Colberg, Joerg. “Presenting Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson,” YouTube, 22 Dec 2011.
Amis, Martin. “Our Favourite Photobooks of 2011,” PhotoBookStore.co.uk, 21 Dec 2011.
Vecten, Laurence. “Beaux Livres de Photo,” Paris Vogue, 20 Dec 2011.
Feustel, Marc. “Photobooks 2011: And the Winner is…,” EyeCurious, 20 Dec 2011.
Colberg, Joerg. “My Favourite Photobooks this Year,” Conscientious, 16 Dec 2011.
Claxton, Tom. “Photobook Highlights of 2011,” Claxton Projects, 13 Dec 2011.
O’Hagan, Sean. “Photography Books of the Year 2011,” The Guardian, 13 Dec 2011.
Soth, Alec. “Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth,” Little Brown Mushroom blog, 12 Dec 2011.
Coignet, Rémi. “Best Books of 2011,” Des Livres et des photos, 12 Dec 2011.
Bell, Adam. “Redheaded Peckerwood,” The Brooklyn Rail, 11 Dec 2011.
Donlon, Conor. “Best Books of 2011,” Donlon Books, 8 Dec 2011.
O’Hagan, Sean. “Christian Patterson Goes on the Trail of America’s Natural Born Killers,” The Guardian, 1 Dec 2011.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s exhibition Crime Unseen, which features selections from Redheaded Peckerwood, reviewed by PBS NewsHour.
Redheaded Peckerwood New York book signing:
Dashwood Books
33 Bond Street, New York
Thursday, December 1, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
NOVEMBER 2011
Redheaded Peckerwood, published by MACK, will debut at Paris Photo 2011, with the following book signings:
Offprint Paris
MACK table
Thursday, November 10, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Paris Photo
Steidl table
Friday, November 11, 5:00 p.m.
Paris Photo
Schaden table
Saturday, November 12, 4:00 p.m.
In addition, there will be a London artist talk, book signing and Q & A, which will be accompanied by a film screening:
Rough Trade East
Thursday, November 17, 7:00 p.m.
Selected images from A Concrete Kind of Fiction will appear in the next issue of Tell Mum Everything is OK, which will also be available at Offprint Paris during Paris Photo 2011.
OCTOBER 2011
Selected prints from A Concrete Kind of Fiction will be shown in the following exhibition and accompanying catalog:
Through the Plain Camera
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Haverford, PA
October 21-December 11, 2011
Opening October 21 / Artist talk October 25, 2011
Featuring Jessica Backhaus, Elizabeth Fleming, Vita Litvak, Christian Patterson and Shen Wei
Selected prints, documents and objects from Redheaded Peckerwood will be shown:
Crime Unseen
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
October 28, 2011-January 15, 2012
Opening and artist talk on October 27, 2011
Featuring Richard Barnes, Corinne May Botz, Christopher Dawson, Deborah Luster, Christian Patterson, Taryn Simon, Angela Strassheim and Krista Wortendyke
On press to print Redheaded Peckerwood.
SEPTEMBER 2011
Redheaded Peckerwood featured in Modern Painters (PDF).
New publication:
The Light Work Annual 2011 includes selections from Redheaded Peckerwood with an essay by Luc Sante. Also featuring Richard Barnes, Lenard Smith, Zoe Strauss, Brian Ulrich, Shen Wei and Susan Worsham, among others. Available for purchase from Light Work.
JULY 2011
MACK press release for Redheaded Peckerwood. (PDF)
Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way.
From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative.
Redheaded Peckerwood also utilizes and plays with a pre-existing archive of material, deliberately mixing fact and fiction, past and present, myth and reality as it presents, expands and re-presents the various facts and theories surrounding this story.
While photographs are the heart of this work, they are the complemented and informed by documents and objects that belonged to the killers and their victims – including a map, poem, confession letter, stuffed animal, hood ornament and various other items, in several cases, these materials are discoveries first made by the artists and presented here for the first time.
In book form, the work is presented as a sort of visual crime dossier, including pieces of paper which are inserted into the book. The many individual pieces included serve as cues and clues within the visual puzzle. In this way, there are connections that are left to the viewer to be made and mysteries that are left to be solved.
Redheaded Peckerwood is Christian Patterson’s second monograph. His first book, Sound Affects, was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf in 2008. His work is in several notable collections including the Libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Notes to editors
For further information please e-mail Poppy Melczak at MACK.
APRIL 2011
The limited edition Redheaded Peckerwood artist book is SOLD OUT.
MARCH 2011
Faye Hirsch of Art in America selected “Revelation 21:8” for her Top Ten List of galleries and works to see at the AIPAD Photography Show in New York. Hirsch writes:
Patterson’s large color C-prints have their own brilliant color sense and eye for the vernacular. One 2004 photograph is titled for a phrase written on a piece of cardboard above a gas stove, all burners blasting: “Revelation 21:8.” It’s as good a photograph of Evangelical end-times as you’re likely to find.
Company, a website “for collectors by collectors,” selected the Sound Affects its four top picks from AIPAD. Company writes:
Patterson uses instinct and experimentation, to make for evocative colors and lighting that identify his unique style. Christian Patterson’s photographs are produced organically; these are not premeditated images, and therefore provide the viewer with the feeling of an intransient moment. His instinctual connection with color inspires a primal feeling in the viewer.
Robert Morat Galerie (Hamburg/Berlin) is showing Sound Affects prints and has the Sound Affects book and the last few remaining Redheaded Peckerwood artist books at AIPAD Booth 431, March 17-20.
Redheaded Peckerwood will be published by MACK in Fall 2011.
FEBRUARY 2011
The special edition Sound Affects book is SOLD OUT.
JANUARY 2011
Redheaded Peckerwood artist book included in Bookmakers artist book exhibition at Le Bal in Paris, France, January 7-9, 2011.
DECEMBER 2010
“Snapshot” feature in ArtReview magazine. Click on image to view large in separate window.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Redheaded Peckerwood artist book included in Bookmakers at Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, September 24-October 17, 2010.
Redheaded Peckerwood artist book included in Le Garage at Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France, September 9-November 4, 2010.
JULY 2010
Redheaded Peckerwood artist book included in Le Garage, “a curated series of 40 photography book dummies and artist books, chosen for their merit and the extent to which they push the mediums of photography and photography books” coinciding with the 2010 Rencontre d’Arles International Photography Festival. Participating artists include Morten Anderson, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sebastien Girard, Paul Kooiker, Jeffrey Ladd and Taryn Simon, among others.
JUNE 2010
Work from Redheaded Peckerwood selected for Descubrimientos PHE 2010, Photo España.
MAY 2010
2010 Light Work Artist-In-Residence.
APRIL 2010
Work included in Smoke Bath, edited by Peter Sutherland, published by Seems. All proceeds go to the Fresh Air Fund.
Sound Affects featured in Music Loves You exhibition at Colette, Paris.
MARCH 2010
Sound Affects book acquired by the libraries of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.