18 Responses to “Clayton Patterson Sep 10 - Oct 27, 2007”

1. Saptain Chit Says:
   September 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

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2. The Wizard Says:
   September 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

   Look for Ace to make an appearance on the gallery walls.

3. El Wiz Says:
   September 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

   Patterson has been a ubiquitous presence of the Lower East Side of Manhattan since the early 1980’s, and is widely known for his dedicated documentation of this historic and now fast changing neighborhood (i.e. vanishing neighborhood, courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg and City Planning co-conspirator Amanda Burden’s campaign of development solely for the sake of developers). He has been a conscientious chronicler of this urban magnet for the disenfranchised that has long been recognized for its creative influence far beyond its humble street corners. Born in 1948, Patterson and his companion, Else Rensaa, moved from Calgary Canada to New York City in 1979. Since 1983 they have lived in the building they purchased on Essex Street, which by 1986 also served as the as the home of the Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Museum, showing artists outside the mainstream. Although trained as artists, they consciously sidestepped the confines of the art world. For many years they were in the spotlight of the vogue for their custom embroidered baseball caps that were sought after by celebrities and the cognoscenti. An ardent community advocate, Patterson also co-founded the New York Tattoo Society and helped win the fight to legalize tattooing in the City. Patterson has created an extensive and always expanding photo and video archive of the Lower East Side. He has continually taken portraits of people posed in front of the graffiti-scrawled door to his safe haven storefront, to then be displayed in the window that the local kids dubbed the “Wall of Fame”. He was there in 1988 during the Tompkins Square police riots (and has been arrested more than a dozen times for photographing the police), and he was at the closing concert of CBGB’s in 2007. The New York Times describes Patterson’s endeavor as such: He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots. This is a collection of photographs unequaled in its power to portray the people and times of a unique neighborhood that has become synonymous with American underworlds and subcultures. Patterson is a street photographer in the tradition of Weegee and Gary Winogrand, but his project is so life-encompassing that it is perhaps more akin to some outsider or conceptualist obsessively documenting one’s environs. Patterson’s photographs show an unedited humanity upfront and close-up. Each picture represents a door to a fascinating story, one that he can annotate with a sharp recollection and sensitive perspective. He has also published two well-received anthologies: ”Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side,” 2005, and “Resistance: A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side,” 2007. Two more anthologies are in the works: “Jewish History of the Lower East Side,” and “Tattoo and Body Art in New York City”. A documentary on Patterson and the Lower East Side titled “Captured” by Dan Levin, Ben Solomon and Jenner Furst is seen much through Patterson’s lens and will soon be premiered with screenings worldwide. Excerpts of the film will be on view during the exhibition

4. s.poe Says:
   September 5th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

   HE WAS ALSO A PAPARAZI AT SEMZ’S FUNERAL. OH WELL, AT LEAST HE’S GOT A NICE SMILE

5. just...thru Says:
   September 6th, 2007 at 3:58 am

   PATERSON MANAGED TO GET A PICTURE OF THE DETECTIVE VERSION OF GEORGE CASTANZA

6. wwf Says:
   September 8th, 2007 at 9:33 am

   yo! Is that a young Vince Mcmahon!

7. clayton Says:
   September 12th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

   To ESPO- as for the SEMZ comment- the end of someone’s life, the funeral, is the last social gathering most people will have with friend’s, loved ones, those who respected the one who passed. A funeral is also for the memories and a way to pay respect. One way I pay respect is to do what I do. I documented Joeys funeral. And you made a comment at the end about taking photos. I said the family will want photos- they did. I got them to them- You bet me a dollar and lost– you forget? Besides, like Joeys song says he was a King- Kings get their funeral documented. I just documented another King/Allan Boy funeral- got love and respect- they got photos. Wheres the beef? Clayton

8. s.poe Says:
   September 14th, 2007 at 9:45 am

   no beef, I dont yell at crows in cornfields either. did the pictures you give the family have the ©CLAYTON PATERSON on them? you can take photos, I can cringe, deal?

9. clayton Says:
   September 15th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

   you can do what ever you want to do- deal?

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