MARCH 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.
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.
Book signings with Ron Jude, Christian Patterson & Ofer Wolberger: 7:00-7:30pm
JANUARY 2012
Redheaded Peckerwood was released on November 10, 2011. As of January 10, 2012, it is OUT OF PRINT. The book can currently be purchased from the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Redheaded Peckerwood featured in Flaunt. (PDF)
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,” Le Monde, 9 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.
“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,” Le Monde / 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.
Museum of Contemporary Photography installation images:
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.
MAY 2011
New website.
“This” section will feature various items for sale. It’s all in the bag.
“That” section will feature additional images and text. Call it the rag.
Thanks to Shane.
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.