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.

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