Publisher/TBW Books

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"Gong Co." is a collection of works by American photographer Christian Paterson (1972-). Self-taught in photography and having gained experience working under William Eggleston, Paterson is highly regarded as an artist who combines photographs with archival materials, objects, and drawings to depict memory, time, and place in a multi-layered way. His representative work, "Redheaded Peckerwood," won the Arles International Photography Festival Author Book Award, and he has also received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grand Prix Images Vevey, making him an indispensable figure when discussing contemporary artist books. This book is the culmination of approximately 20 years of documentation of "Gong Co.," a grocery store run by a Chinese-American family that actually existed in the Mississippi Delta. Paterson, who happened to come across the store in 2003, continued to observe it for a long time, from its closure to its eventual demolition. By combining on-site photographs with monotypes, collages, handwritten notes, and items left behind in the store, he elevates the book itself into an installation. The book's construction itself is designed as an integral part of the artwork, with features such as a worn cloth binding, a cover reminiscent of a paper bag, and printing that replicates the effects of aging. Inheriting the photographic history of the American South as depicted by Walker Evans and William Eggleston, this is Christian Paterson's new masterpiece, crystallizing the accumulation of time and memories etched into that land into a rich expression that transcends the boundaries of a photobook.