Dan Estabrook: Photographic Memory

Part theory, part practice, this class will look back through the history of photography to discover how it helps to shape memory and experience. We will discuss the first technical experiments, photographic permanence, autobiography, memorial photographs, digital amnesia and more. Students will have an opportunity to work hands-on with early photographic processes like the salt print, as well as to discuss their own work in a group critique. Whether to find a new understanding of the past or as the inspiration to create new work, this is a unique opportunity for students to find the links between how we use photography today and how it all began.

DAN ESTABROOK For almost twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Lately he has focused on the earliest processes on paper – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. Dan is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York, and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.

http://danestabrook.com

Class limit:12
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265
To register for this event, please visit:
http://www.cpw.org/WPW/2011/pages/July.html