Dan McCormack

Biography

Dan McCormack 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 cameras, techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.

In 1982, Dan McCormack 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.

Dan has been teaching photography at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA for over thirty years and he now heads the film photography program. He has reported to his dean that during the past academic year he has exhibited in 76 exhibitions; local, national and international.

Country USA

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