Dan
McCormack

I studied Photography from 1962 - 1967 at the Institute of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago from 1967 to 1970. I began photographing the nude with Wendy, my wife, while in graduate school. Then for over forty-five years I explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.
I have taught photography at Purdue University, Pratt Institute, SUNY New Paltz, Bard College, Ramapo College and  Mercy College before I came to Marist College twenty-six years ago. I currently head the photography program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

In 1998 I began to work with pinhole photography. I use an oatmeal box pinhole camera to make 8x10 inch B&W negatives. With its extreme wide angle and distortion, the camera gives me results that are constantly a surprise. I develop the negatives, scan them into Photoshop, and then colorize the image by pulling curves in each of the channels. I make an images rooted in 16th Century pinhole optics juxtaposed with 21st Century digital print manipulations. These newest photographs of mine are a hybrid of Photography and Digital Printmaking.

In January 2010 I had a solo show at the Photography Center in Troy, NY.  I showing 50 images from 10 diverse series. In May 2013 I have a solo show, “Nude at Home”, 26 images at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY.  I showed the “Nudes at Home” newest series at the Beacon Artists Union in Beacon, NY in January 2016, and at the Arts Upstairs Gallery in Phoenicia, NY
in June 2016 and May 2017. In May 2018, I had a solo show of my pinhole-camera series, “Nude at Home” which acknowledged the publication of my
new book, “Nude at Home”.