Small School Artist Talks: Dan Estabrook

Dan Estabrook was born and raised in Boston, where he studied art at city schools and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He discovered photography in his teens through the underground magazines of the punk rock and skateboarding cultures of the 1980s. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, he began studying alternative photographic processes with Christopher James.

Estabrook has continued to make contemporary art using the photographic techniques and processes of the 19th century, with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing, and other works on paper. He has exhibited widely and has received several awards. A documentary on Estabrook and his work was produced in 2009 for Anthropy Arts’ Photographers Series. This year sees the publication of a monograph titled Forever & Never and an exhibition of the same name at the Museum.

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Image: Courtesy of the artist