Fond du Lac
Subtitle: Bottom of the lake : Telephone Directory
By: Christian Patterson
Publisher: the Artist
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Drawing; Artists' books; Pictorial works; Collage; Telephone; Directories; Telephone directories; Facsimiles
Other titles: Bottom of the Lake
Description: "The Fond du Lac Telephone Directory is a book within a book — an exact 244-page facsimile of the artist’s own telephone book for his hometown, printed soon after his birth. It is marked with extensive autobiographical notes and references, doodles, jokes and marginalia, and inserted with found materials and original notes, drawings and photographs. The telephone book is a complete, factual document of its own place and time, while the artist’s inserted work is a completely subjective document — his own way of seeing the same place over time, through the prism of his childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and now as an artist. The Fond du Lac Telephone Directory carefully combines and playfully juxtaposes these different ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous “other” book." -- Artist's website (viewed Oct. 6, 2016)
Notes: Title from cover.

Issued in slipcase with two inset images.

"No More Jive" -- P. 4 of cover.

"42 inserts, 37 b/w and color archival pigment prints, 5 notes and drawings, plus found stickers" -- Artist's website (viewed Oct. 6, 2016)

Edition of 10, each of which is unique.

This book is similar, but not identical, to Patterson's "Bottom of the Lake," published by Koenig Books in 2015.