Conférences ECAL (novembre 2017)
A l’occasion d’une semaine de workshop avec les étudiants en Bachelor Photographie.
Christian Patterson, photographe, New York
Mercredi 15 novembre à 18 h, Auditoire IKEA, ECAL
Bio (in english)
Christian Patterson (b. 1972, Fond du Lac, WI) moved from Brooklyn, New
York to Memphis, Tennessee in 2002 to work for photographer William
Eggleston. In 2005, Patterson completed his first project, Sound Affects, a
collection of color photographs that explore Memphis utilizing light
and color as visual analogues to sound and music. In 2008, a Sound Affects monograph was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf (Cologne). His second monograph Redheaded Peckerwood was
published by MACK in 2011 and was named one of the best books of the
year by numerous noted international photography critics, nominated for
the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and won the prestigious 2012
Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award. The book appeared in The Photobook: A History, Volume 3,
co-edited by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr. In 2013, Patterson was
awarded a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,
or Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2015, he won the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016.
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