{"product_id":"reading-room-photo-based-books-from-the-collections-of-center-for-book-arts","title":"Reading Room: Photo-based Books from the Collections of Center for Book Arts","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the fifth International Center of Photography Photobook Fest, artist Christian Patterson has curated a selection of photo-based books from the Center for Book Art’s Collection, available for viewing in a dedicated CBA Reading Room at the fair. Patterson’s selection includes a wide and inspiring array of books dating from the 1960s to the early 2000s, from self-published zines to trade edition books, with subjects including books themselves, climate change, crime, New York City, politics, race, and religion. Rare books from François Deschamps, Helen Douglas and Telfer Stokes, Nancy Holt, Bruce Nauman, Maureen O. Paley, Michalis Pichler, and Keith A. Smith are included among many others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpatterson.com\/\"\u003eCHRISTIAN PATTERSON \u003c\/a\u003eis an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, books, and installation. His work has also included archival ephemera, drawings, hand-painted signs, monoprints, readymade objects, sound, and video. Patterson’s work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and it often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place, and time. He is the author of four books: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSound Affects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2008), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRedheaded Peckerwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2011, Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBottom of the Lake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2015), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGong Co.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2024). He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015), a New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow (2022), James Castle House resident (2023), and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2025). His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Milwaukee Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and his books are in many institutional artist book collections. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and lives in New York City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAbout ICP’s Photobook Fest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe International Center of Photography is thrilled to host the fifth Photobook Fest, May 8-10, 2026, spanning our museum and school! For one weekend in May, ICP welcomes over 80 publishers from around the world bringing the best in photobook making to the Lower East Side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFriday, May 8, 12 PM – 7 PM\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaturday, May 9, 11 AM – 7 PM  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSunday, May 10, 12 PM – 5 PM  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$8 – Single Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$20 – Three Day Pass  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for Book Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46686359552156,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3861\/files\/VS_12_4.jpg?v=1776354671","url":"https:\/\/shop.centerforbookarts.org\/products\/reading-room-photo-based-books-from-the-collections-of-center-for-book-arts","provider":"Center for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}