• Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate
  • Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate
  • Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate
  • Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate
  • Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate
  • Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate

Daniel W. Coburn The Hereditary Estate

The Hereditary Estate functions as a ten-year retrospective and as a conceptual work of art. Coburns work and research investigates the family photo album employed as the visual infrastructure for the flawed ideology of the American Dream. Frustrated by the lack of images that document the true and sometimes troubling nature of his own familial history, the photographer set out to create a new archive, a potent supplement to the broken family album that exists in the collection of many families. Using photographs made over the last decade and altered, amateur photographs, he weaves a family narrative that is simultaneously beautiful and terrifying. The careful sequencing of these images creates a powerful psychological dialogue designed to inspire an emotional and visceral response from the viewer. The international distribution of this book completes an essential conceptual component of this work, placing this supplementary album into family collections in countries all over the world.


Swiss Binding hardcover 29 x 22,5 cm 112 pages 76 duotone illustrations English Available ISBN 978-3-86828-537-6 2014

Texts:

Karen Irvine, Kirsten Pai Buick


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Exhibitions

Family Affairs (Group Exhibition)
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
29.01. – 31.05.2021

Grenze Festival, Verona, Italy
09.09. – 02.11.2020

Becoming a Specter
Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York
06.06.  -  17.08.2018

Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Designhaus Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany
20.04. – 06.05.2018

Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh
27.05. – 30.07.2016

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester
04.06 – 23.08.2015

Mulvane Art Museum,Topeka
16.01. – 21.03.2015

 

 

Book Signings

Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Designhaus Hessen, Darmstadt
22.04.2018, 12.00

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