Dan McCormack
USA (United States)
http://www.danmccormack.net
Kunstart: Fotografie
Technik: Fine-Art-Print
Stil: Surrealismus
Statement:
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 an expressionism. Through successive pulling of curves, B&W values are replaced with color in separate channels that ultimately create the dreamlike state of the finished piece. Objects or places juxtaposed with the model trigger a response that I react to while colorizing and the resulting images range from the absurd to the profound and from gender issues to politics.
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 each image. This work is rooted in 16th Century with the pinhole optics and combined with the 21st Century digital print manipulations. With its solarization-like tone reversals and silkscreen-like color layering, these images are a hybrid of Photography and Digital Printmaking.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
I began studying Photography around 1965 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 forty years I explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.
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 B&W 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.
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.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
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Sarah_M_5-08-09--5AG
Fotografie
41 x 27 cm
2009
Preis: 540 Euro
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Kate_A_6-10-09--4BH
Fotografie
Fine-Art-Print
25 x 27 cm
2009
Preis: 540 Euro
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Kate_A_6-08-09--6AD
Fotografie
Fine-Art-Print
27 x 32 cm
2009
Preis: 540 Euro
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Melissa_N_4-26-09--11CB
Fotografie
Fine-Art-Print
27 x 27 cm
2009
Preis: 552 Euro
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Melissa_N_4-26-09--6BD
Fotografie
Fine-Art-Print
31 x 27 cm
2009
Preis: 552 Euro
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Melissa_N_4-26-09--7BC
Fotografie
Fine-Art-Print
31 x 27 cm
2009
Preis: 552 Euro
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