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www.dan-mccormack.net

Dan McCormack (born January 22, 1944 in Chicago, IL) is a in silver, cyanotype, palladium, and digital prints,” while working
photographer and professor at Marist College in nY, where he with ”nimslo, Diana, Holga,” and conventional cameras, as well as
heads the photography program. McCormack has led the Advanced an office scanner and video camera. In his most recent series, he
Photography Seminar at the Dutchess County Art Association in takes B&w photographs with an oatmeal box pinhole camera, then
Poughkeepsie, nY for over twenty years. He has photographed digitally colorizes them, with the result that the images are ”rooted
the nude for over forty years, working in the studio, various indoor in sixteenth-century optics juxtaposed with twenty-first century
settings, and out in the landscape of upstate new York. His book digital technology.”
Body Light: Passages in a Relationship, a series of images of his wife Dan McCormack’s photographs can be found in a number of
wendy, was published in 1988. textbooks--Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age (2007)
After studying with Aaron Siskind, Joseph Jachna, Arthur Siegel, and and Exploring Color Photography (2004)--as well as in the collections
wynn Bullock at the IIT Institute of Design in 1965, Dan McCormack of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Center for Creative
started graduate school in 1968 at the School of the Art Institute of Photography, University of Arizona; the visual Studies workshop
Chicago, where he began photographing the nude. At the Art Institute in Rochester, nY; the Ontological Museum in Fort worth, TX; the
of Chicago he worked with kenneth Josephson, Barbara Crane and Pinhole Resource in San Lorenzo, new Mexico; and the Ultimate Eye
Frank Barsotti. Since then, he has ”explored figurative imagery Foundation in San Francisco, CA.

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