Redheaded Peckerwood

Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson

CHOOSE BETWEEN A FISRT EDITION IN NEAR FINE CONDITION OR A SECOND EDITION IN FINE CONDITION 

About the 1st edition

First edition from 2011

Medium format hardback in near fine condition

Some shelf wear to boards 

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages 

About the 2nd edition

Second edition from 2012

Medium format hardback in fine condition 

Some very slight shelf to boards

About

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.