Dan Estabrook
212 pages, 90 plates, 6 die cuts
11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (28.83 x 23.11 cm.)
Smyth sewn with a die cut hardcover
Printed and bound by Musumeci in Italy
Designed by Studio Elana Schlenker
First Edition: 500 copies
ISBN: 979-8-89443-361-5
Forever & Never is the first major monographic work by artist Dan Estabrook. For the last 30 years, Estabrook has been expanding the potentials of photography's traditional "alternative" processes - such as calotype negatives, gum bichromate, and albumen prints. The artist often then expands upon these methods through paradigms of drawing, painting, and sculpture. In a digital age marked by rapid technological advances, Estabrook’s practice stands as a counterpoint, celebrating the tactile and handmade nature of the photographic medium. The work in Forever & Never holds fast as an anchor to the authenticity, curiosity, and soulfulness found in the romance of photography’s magic and materiality.
The monograph is divided into three unique chapters: Little Devils, Ghosts & Models, and Broken Fingers. Each chapter unfolds in a non-chronological, visually arresting format that captures the artist’s playful yet profound approach to storytelling. Little Devils examines the early history of photography, when its processes were intertwined with drawing. Ghosts & Models reimagines the complex and often fleeting dynamic between photographer and subject. Finally, Broken Fingers contemplates the physicality of the photographic object and its parallel to the human body.
Dan Estabrook - Forever & Never
Dan Estabrook
212 pages, 90 plates, 6 die cuts
11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (28.83 x 23.11 cm.)
Smyth sewn with a die cut hardcover
Printed and bound by Musumeci in Italy
Designed by Studio Elana Schlenker
First Edition: 500 copies
ISBN: 979-8-89443-361-5
Forever & Never is the first major monographic work by artist Dan Estabrook. For the last 30 years, Estabrook has been expanding the potentials of photography's traditional "alternative" processes - such as calotype negatives, gum bichromate, and albumen prints. The artist often then expands upon these methods through paradigms of drawing, painting, and sculpture. In a digital age marked by rapid technological advances, Estabrook’s practice stands as a counterpoint, celebrating the tactile and handmade nature of the photographic medium. The work in Forever & Never holds fast as an anchor to the authenticity, curiosity, and soulfulness found in the romance of photography’s magic and materiality.
The monograph is divided into three unique chapters: Little Devils, Ghosts & Models, and Broken Fingers. Each chapter unfolds in a non-chronological, visually arresting format that captures the artist’s playful yet profound approach to storytelling. Little Devils examines the early history of photography, when its processes were intertwined with drawing. Ghosts & Models reimagines the complex and often fleeting dynamic between photographer and subject. Finally, Broken Fingers contemplates the physicality of the photographic object and its parallel to the human body.