Estabrook graduated from Rhode Island College in 1969 and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1971 he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in photography at the School of the Art Institute. Since graduating in 1971, Estabrook has taught at the universities of Illinois and Northern Iowa, chaired the Photography Program at Kansas City Art Institute and coordinated a new program in photography at San Jose State University. He also traveled to Sheffield, England, to participate in a Fulbright Teacher Exchange at Sheffield Polytechnic. Estabrook is now a professor of Art and Design at San Jose State University, where he has taught since 1984. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Exercise in Solid Geometry, #29 is a striking print that immediately attracts the attention of the viewer. Estabrook brings cohesiveness to this abstract composition with the use of geometry, symmetry and vivid colors. In his artist?s statement, Estabrook aptly describes his own work as eclectic.
Dye Transfer Print
Children Butchering a Goat: Temple of the Living Goddess, Kathmandu
Klett graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, in 1974 with his bachelor?s degree in geology. In 1977, he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Photography from State University of New York in Buffalo. He also completed a program of photographic studies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Klett?s solo exhibitions include the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan. The Antwerp Museum of Photography in Belgium, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York are among the numerous permanent collections that include works by Klett. Klett was influenced by the late 19th century expeditionary, Timothy O?Sullivan. Famous for documenting the so-called unexplored territories of the West, O?Sullivan?s images always manage to reveal the effects man has had on the landscape. Klett?s work also focuses on the interaction between man and his environment.