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Dan McCormack (photographer)

Dan McCormack (born January 22, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is a photographer and professor at Marist College[1] in New York, where he heads the photography program.

Work edit

McCormack has led the Advanced Photography Seminar at the Dutchess County Art Association in Poughkeepsie, New York for over twenty years. He has photographed the nude for over forty years, working in the studio, various indoor settings, and out in the landscape of upstate New York. His book Body Light: Passages in a Relationship, a series of images of his wife Wendy, was published in 1988.[2]

After studying with Aaron Siskind, Joseph Jachna, Arthur Siegel, and Wynn Bullock at the IIT Institute of Design in 1965, Dan McCormack started graduate school in 1968 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he began photographing the nude. At the Art Institute of Chicago he worked with Kenneth Josephson, Barbara Crane and Frank Barsotti.[3] Since then, he has "explored figurative imagery in silver, cyanotype, palladium, and digital prints," while working with "Nimslo, Diana, Holga," and conventional cameras, as well as an office scanner and video camera.[4] In his most recent series, he takes B&W photographs with an oatmeal box pinhole camera, then digitally colorizes them,[5] with the result that the images are "rooted in sixteenth-century optics juxtaposed with twenty-first century digital technology."[6]

Dan McCormack's photographs can be found in a number of textbooks--Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age (2007) and Exploring Color Photography (2004)--as well as in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;[7] the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York; the Ontological Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the Pinhole Resource in San Lorenzo, New Mexico; and the Ultimate Eye Foundation in San Francisco, California.[8]

Publications edit

  • Body Light: Passages in a Relationship (McCormack) Mombaccus Press. ISBN 978-0-943556-04-8
  • Exploring Color Photography, Fifth Edition: From Film to Pixels. (Hirsch) Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-81335-6
  • Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age [9] (Hirsch) Focal Press. ISBN 0-240-80855-X
  • Exploring Color Photography [10] (Hirsch) McGraw-Hill Humanities. ISBN 0-07-240706-9
  • Black and White Photography: Manifest Visions [11] (Luciana), Rockport Publishers ISBN 1-56496-647-X
  • The Art of Enhanced Photography [12] (Luciana) Rockport Publishers. ISBN 1-84000-195-X
  • Tradition and the Unpredictable [13] (Chasanoff) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. ISBN 0-89090-059-0

Reviews edit

  • Photography Center of the Capital District, Troy New York [1]
  • Wilson Street Gallery (Charles Sturt College, Albury, Australia) [2]
  • Art Network News Quarterly: Emerging Artists Series [3]

Workshops edit

  • Dan McCormack has offered his workshop "Photographing the Nude" at Unison Arts in New Paltz, New York. for over 20 years beginning in July 1993 until the present 2015.

References edit

  1. ^ "The Communication Major - Faculty: Marist College". www.marist.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30.
  2. ^ Body light: Passages in a relationship. Mombaccus Press. 1988. OL 8445550M.
  3. ^ "Pixiport:Fine Art Photographers Biography Dan McCormack". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  4. ^ "HyperArt.com - Biennale 2000". hyperart.com. Archived from the original on 2001-03-05.
  5. ^ Hirsch, Robert. Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Oxford: Focal Press, 2008.
  6. ^ Hirsch, Robert. Exploring Color Photography, Fifth Edition: From Film to Pixels. Oxford: Focal Press, 2011.
  7. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tradition and the Unpredictable. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1994
  8. ^ "Visura | Discover the world's top freelance visual storytellers".
  9. ^ Hirsch, Robert (2008). Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. ISBN 978-0240808550.
  10. ^ Hirsch, Robert (2004). Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio. ISBN 0072407069.
  11. ^ Luciana, James (2000). Black and White Photography: Manifest Visions : An International Collection. ISBN 156496647X.
  12. ^ Luciana, James; Watts, Judith (1999). The Art of Enhanced Photography: Beyond the Photographic Image. ISBN 184000195X.
  13. ^ Tucker, Anne (1994). Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection. ISBN 0890900590.

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