R.C. May Photography Lecture Series: Dan Estabrook

Dan Estabrook employs nineteenth-century photographic techniques and visual tropes to create intimate images that are both deeply personal and universal: the pangs of falling in love, the fear of loss, taking an account of one’s life. Like his historic predecessors, Estabrook’s work veers between a guise of scientific inquiry and more symbolic and poetic interpretations.  He often alters photographs— adding paint or emulsion to salt prints, or cutting away parts of tintypes— so that each work is unique.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.