Christian Patterson at Power House, Memphis TN

Raiford by Christian Patterson

If you’re down Memphis way, check out Christian Patterson’s show Sound Affects at the “mini-Tate Modern” Power House gallery. Erik down at View from the Edge already picked up on this show while he was recently in Memphis. Christian has had the amazing opportunity to work with William Eggleston while developing his own style, one that features strikingly vivid color in even drab subjects.

In 2000, Patterson turned is back on New York (!) and the deflating dot-com bubble to work at the Eggleston Trust, a fortuitous turn of events that led to friendship with William Eggleton himself. Fortuitous, too, because otherwise Patterson might have ended up as just another photoblogger, albeit a particularly talented one. I say this because Eggleston and his contemporaries - Winogrand, Shore, Davidson et al - are really the spiritual fathers of the photoblogger aesthetic. So it is interesting that Patterson eschewed the digital trend and found himself on perhaps a richer path in Memphis, TN. (He hasn't however rejected NYC forever and plans to return to the city later his year.)