Christian Patterson
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photographer.
Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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, Patterson lives in New York City
New York City
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.
In 2002 Patterson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
to work with the photographer William Eggleston
William Eggleston
William Eggleston , is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries—which, until the 1970s, often tended to privilege work by photographers making black-and-white prints.- Early years...
. While living in Memphis, Patterson began working on his first project, Sound Affects, a collection of color photographs that explores Memphis as a visual and musical place, portrays musical locations, music’s presence and influence, and the musicality of everyday life. The project was completed in 2005.
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
Charles Starkweather
Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a two-month road trip with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. The couple was captured on January 29, 1958...
and Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate
Caril Ann Fugate was the adolescent girlfriend and accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather. She is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried for first-degree murder....
across Nebraska and Wyoming. Photographs are the heart of the project, but they are complemented and informed by documents and objects that belonged to the killers and their victims. Later that year, Patterson moved back to Brooklyn, New York. He eventually completed this second project in 2010.
In 2008, his first monograph Sound Affects was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf (Cologne). In 2011, his second monograph Redheaded Peckerwood was published by MACK (London).
Solo exhibitions
- Another Time, Another Place, and You, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS (2003)
- Sound Affects, Power House, Memphis, TN (2005)
- Sound Affects, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY (2006)
- Sound Affects, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2007)
- Sound Affects, Kaune, Sudendorf Contemporary, Cologne, Germany (2008)
Monographs
- Redheaded Peckerwood. Photographs by Christian Patterson. MACK: London. (2011)
- Sound Affects. Photographs by Christian Patterson. Edition Kaune, Sudendorf: Cologne. (2008)