Sing the Body Electric An exhibition at Charles Sturt University of pinhole imagery by Dan McCormack [Page - Dan Mccormack - 4Ko - 2006]

VITAE   DAN McCORMACK           13 Beehive Road,  Accord,   New York 12404               ( 845 / 626-7958 )          http://www.danmccormack.net                                       e-mail   dan_mccormack@yahoo.com                                                                                                                                   EDUCATION:                     SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO                                 Sept. 1967 - Aug. 1969   Michigan at Adams, Chicago, Illinois 60616  (312/567-3310)                   M.F.A. in Photography 1970   Studied with Ken Josephson, Barbara Crane, Frank Barsotti     INSTITUTE OF DESIGN - ILL. INST. OF TECH.                                      Sept. 1962 - June 1967   3300 S. Federal Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603  (312/899-5100)               B.S.  in Photography 1967  Studied with Aaron Siskind, Joe Jachna, Wynn Bullock, Arthur Siegel                                                                     TEACHING:      MARIST COLLEGE         Poughkeepsie, N.Y.                              Feb. 91   -    current    ACADEMY of ART UNIVERSITY, non-resident MFA program         Feb.       -    May    2010    ART INSTITUTE of BOSTON,  non-resident MFA program           Sept.       -    Dec.   2003    VERMONT COLLEGE,  non-resident MFA program                        Feb.        -    July    2000    S.U.N.Y. COLLEGE AT NEW PALTZ,  N.Y.                                       Jan.         -    May   1997    RAMAPO COLLEGE,               Mawah, N.J.                                  Sept.       -    Dec.   1994   INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY NYC.               June 92   -    Dec.   1993   IONA COLLEGE, SETON SCHOOL, Yonkers, N.Y.                            Sept.90   -    Dec.   1992   MERCY COLLEGE,          Dobbs ferry, N.Y.                                  Jan.  82    -    Aug.  1989   COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS,  Randolph, N.J.                            June 81    -    Aug.  1982   HARRIMAN COLLEGE,          Harriman, N.Y.                                  Sept.80    -    June   1981   JUNIOR COLLEGE OF ALBANY,    Albany, N.Y.                               Sept.79    -    June  1980   BARD COLLEGE,             Annondale, N.Y.                                    January    term       1979   SOMERSET COUNTY COLLEGE, Somerville, N.J.                         Sept.76    -    Dec.  1985   COLUMBIA-GREENE COMM.COLLEGE, Hudson N.Y.                         Feb. 72    -    Dec.  1979   MOMBACCUS ART CENTER         Accord, N.Y.                                Sept.71    -    Aug.  1974   S.U.N.Y. COLLEGE AT NEW PALTZ,       N.Y.                                    Sept.70    -    June   1971   PRATT INSTITUTE,           Brooklyn, N.Y.                                  Sept.69   -    June   1970   PURDUE UNIVERSITY,   West Lafayette, IN.                             Feb. 69   -    June   1969                                                                     COLLECTIONS:     THE  PINHOLE RESOURCE,  San Lorenzo, New Mexico   THE  ONTOLOGICAL MUSEUM, Fort Worth, Texas   ULTIMATE EYE FOUNDATION, San Francisco, Calif  MUSEUM of MODERN ART, LIBRARY,  New York, NY   FOUNDATION FOR SEX POSITIVE CULTURE,  Seattle, WA.  SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, SUNY, New Paltz,    New Paltz, New York  ART INSTITUE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois    CENTER  FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY-UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tuscon, AZ  MASSACHUSETS INSTITUTE. OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA  CHICAGO CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Chicago, Illinois  VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP, study collection, Rochester, New York  CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY at WOODSTOCK, Woodstock, New York  INSTITUTE OF DESIGN ARCHIVES, Chicago, Illinois  MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, Texas  KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE of ARTS, Kalamazoo, Michigan  PRIVATE collections     [Biography - Dan Mccormack - 15Ko]

D A N M c C O R M A C K Pinhole Camera Nudes   I use the distortions of the oatmeal box pinhole camera and the digital colorizations to create a series of visceral images that probe the unconscious, stepping away from the literal reality and choosing instead to speak with a Jungian expressionism. Objects or places juxtaposed with the model trigger a response that I react to while colorizing. Through successive pulling of curves B&W values are replaced with color in separate channels that ultimately connect with the dreamlike state of the finished image. In 1998 I began to work with pinhole photography. Using an oatmeal box pinhole camera, I shoot 8x10 inch B&W film. With its extreme wide angle and distortion, the camera gives results that are constantly a surprise. I develop the B&W negatives, scan them into Photoshop, and then colorize the image. This imagery, rooted in 16th Century pinhole optics, juxtaposed with 21st Century digital print manipulations, is a hybrid of Photography and Digital Printmaking.   [Biography - Dan Mccormack - 2Ko]

Fine Art Photographer I began studying Photography in 1963 at the Institute of Design in Chicago. My studies with Aaron Siskind, Joe Jachna, Arthur Siegal and Wynn Bullock gave me first hand experience with truly creative photographers. At the Art Institute of Chicago around 1967, I began photographing the nude with Wendy, my wife, and I began making multiple image prints. Then for over thirty years I explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme. I began digital image making with the Apple IIe in 1984 where I explored juxtapositions, ie. portraits on top of nudes and pigment against raster scan lines. This led into the idea of scanning my 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 create a surreal statement. Next I scanned a series of B&W Nimslo camera multiple image shots of figures. These I 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 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 is a delight because it gives me results that are constantly a surprise. I develop the B&W negatives, scan them into Photoshop, and then colorize 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 mine are a blend of these opposites. In my diverse series, from multiple exposures, to juxtapositions of time, from plastic camera, Nimslo camera, scanner as camera to pinhole camera, I have always tried to find a mix of image and process with the nude as a theme. I currently head the Photography program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York where I teach photography classes and an Introduction to Digital Media class.   [Biography - Dan Mccormack - 4Ko]