tricia-p-01-10-16-13ab.jpg Photography by Dan Mccormack

Dan Mccormack is a fine art photographer. He began studying Photography around 1965 at the Institute of Design in Chicago. His studies with Aaron Siskind, Joe Jachna, Arthur Siegal and Wynn Bullock gave him first hand experience with truly creative photographers.

At the Art Institute of Chicago around 1969, he began photographing the nude with Wendy, his wife, and he began making multiple image prints. Then for over thirty years he explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.

He began digital image making with the Apple IIe in 1984 where he explored juxtapositions, ie. portraits on top of nudes and pigment against raster scan lines. This led into the idea of scanning his finished images of palladium diptychs of a nude in water and using it as a module for a new Photoshop series of composited images. Repeating the diptych image many times with strange overlaps creates a surreal statement. Next, he scanned a series of B&W Nimslo camera multiple image shots of figures. He colorized and reduced in size using Photoshop so that the image became a color pattern where it was hard to discern the tiny nude.

In 1998 he began to work with pinhole photography.

He uses an oatmeal box pinhole camera to make 8x10 inch B&W negatives. With its extreme wide angle and distortion, the camera is a delight because it gives him results that are constantly a surprise. He develops the B&W negatives, scans them into Photoshop, and then colorizes the image by pulling curves in each of the channels. It is a thrill to make an image rooted in 16th Century pinhole optics juxtaposed with 21st Century digital print manipulations. These newest photographs of him are a blend of these opposites.

In his diverse series, from multiple exposures, to juxtapositions of time, from plastic camera, Nimslo camera, scanner as camera to pinhole camera, he has always tried to find a mix of image and process with the nude as a theme.

He currently heads the Photography program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York where he teach photography classes and an Introduction to Digital Media class.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1944
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary American Artists