PATTERSON, Christian; SANGUINETTI, Alessandra; MEEKS, Raymond & Wolfgang TILLMANSAnnual Series No. 4

Book design: Pauil Schiek. Copy No. 840

Christian Patterson - Bottom of the Lake: Working from a unique perspective and restrained stylistic viewpoint, Patterson continues to build on the visual narrative that propelled him to the forefront with his earlier book, Redheaded Peckerwood. In Bottom of the Lake, he revisits his Wisconsin hometown to reveal a dark, cold, and beer soaked world that looks unmistakably his.

Alessandra Sanguinetti - Sorry, Welcome: Sanguinetti veers away from the previous work that proved her to be a photographic powerhouse. Sorry, Welcome is a glimpse into the artist's life the way it looked throughout the winter of 2012.  The work was shot over a short period of time in which Sanguinetti took a step back becoming a voyeur of her own life.

Raymond Meeks – Erasure: Meek's poetic work plays out as the artist rides a bicycle around his newly adopted east coast home base. Loss and longing share equal roles as the artist traverses the concrete, snapping away in a style that marries the objectivity of Google Street View with the inquisitive sensitivity of Robert Frank. Using printing techniques that involve over-exposing and laying what Meek's calls a "base fog" to the image.

Wolfgang Tillmans – Utoquai: Taking his book title from a bathhouse in Zürich, Tillmans closes out the series with a deeply personal visual investigation of a single muse throughout the entirety of the book. It's rare that a close up photo of an ear or an eye or a knee can be both endlessly interesting and unmistakably authored by one individual, but here Tillmans achieves just that.