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Dan McCormack - photography
03 Feb 2023 – 04 May 2023
Dan McCormack studied Photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago He earned an MFA in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He began photographing the nude with Wendy, his wife while in graduate school. Then for over fifty years he explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.
.In 1982, Dan won a NYSCA-CAPS Photography Fellowship with a series of infrared nude images made of Wendy. With that series, he produced a monograph, "BODY LIGHT-Passages in a Relationship" in 1989.
In 1998 Dan began to work with pinhole camera photography. In 2009, he won the Ultimate Eye Foundation’s grant for Figurative Photography and had his work featured in an exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, CA.
In January 2010, Dan McCormack had a solo show at the Photography Center in Troy, NY. He showed over fifty images from ten diverse series made from 1990 to 2010. I
Dan was one of the three founders of the Center for Photography in Woodstock in 1975 and Dan has taught photography at Marist College for over 25 years and he now heads the Film photography program.
