Nude at Home

• Photographer
  Dan Mccormack, United States
• Studio
  Dan McCormack Photography
• Website
  http://www.dan-mccormack.net

The Nude at Home


I use the extreme wide angle distortions of the round oatmeal box pinhole camera
and the digital colorization to create a series of visceral images. Through successive
pulling of curves in Photoshop, B&W values are replaced with color. The “Nude at Home” is
a subset of a larger pinhole camera project begun in 1998. In this series, begun about
five years ago, I photograph the model nude in her home, apartment or studio. With the
model in her space, all the objects in the image are a part of the life of the model. Then
the pose, the furniture and the long, two minute exposures reveal an intimate portrait of
the subject.

• Biography
  After completing an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I taught Photography on the college level for forty years. Currently I teach photography full time at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY where I head the photography program. I have been active in creating and exhibiting my personal photographic imagery also for forty years. I won a NYSCA CAPS Fellowship in Photography in 1982 and I published a small monograph of nude images of my wife, Wendy, Body Light: Passages from a Relationship in 1989
• Awards
  NYSCA-CAPS Photography Fellowship 1982 Ultimate Eye Foundation, figurative photography fellowship 2009