Dan Estabrook Overview

For more than fifteen years, Dan Estabrook has worked with historical photographic techniques to explore intimate issues about love, sex and death. In his two newest series, Sleep and Nine Symptoms, he continues his use of antiquated processes – the calotype... [more]

For more than fifteen years, Dan Estabrook has worked with historical photographic techniques to explore intimate issues about love, sex and death. In his two newest series, Sleep and Nine Symptoms, he continues his use of antiquated processes – the calotype paper negative and salt print positive – turning the camera on his own body as he examines his wants, desires and fears. In Sleep, Estabrook presents images which obscure the division between the cognizant and dream states, as figures emerge and disappear into fading backgrounds, body parts levitate and dreams sprout visibly from a woman's pursed lips. In Estabrook's sleep state, one loses control, exposing secrets and flaws only realized upon waking. [show less]