Current Show

Best of 2009

February 26–March 21, 2010
Opening Reception February 26, 2010 / Coincides with Troy Night Out

The accepted photos for the Best of 2009 exhibition must be received as ready-to-hang prints by Sunday, February 21, by 6 p.m. For those wishing to enter the prints into the Salon exhibit of the Photo Regional, please note that the Best of 2009 show ends on the same day as the deadline for submitting to the Photo Regional, Sunday, March 21.  The Salon will be on review at the Troy Atrium, a mere two blocks from the PhotoCenter.

 The images submitted for the Best of 2009 were truly outstanding, fulfilling the intention of the exhibit. We regret there is room to hang only 75 prints of the 350 images.  However, all submitted images will be on continual rotation as a slide show.

Featuring work by:

M-J L. Adelman, David Aimone, Jeffery Altman, Nicole Armstrong,
Kate Bader, John Berninger, Joe Bledsoe, David Brickman,
Bill Cornish, Thea Coughlin,
Chris Demarco, Thomas Drake,
Craig P. Flood, Jeff Foley, Bob Foss, Jerry Freedner, Jay Freud,
Nancy Noble Gardner, George Gati, Cheryl Gowie, Harvey Gurien,
Peter Harris, Ray Henrickson, William Hetzer, Connie Frisbee Houde,
Barry Junjulas,
Tom Killips, Ottmar Klaas, Alla Kogan,
Gary Larsen, Tim Leopardi, Juha-Matti Levasalmi,
Corey Mackenzie, Heather Madeline, Joe Marcuccio, Dan McCormack, John McKinley, Wendy McLaughlin, Doug Mitchell, Kevin Mullen,
Gail Nadeau, Robert Near,
Dave Ozmon,
Lynn Palmiter, Jeff Perkins, John Petersen,
Frank Rapant, Diane Reiner, Heidi Ricks, Ralph Rio,
Clark Seeley, Cynthia Smith, Sean Sullivan,
Max Tiller,
Mark VanWormer,
Katherine Wardle, Jasper Layne Wilson, Jake Winiski, Dale Winsor,
John Yost,
and Elizabeth Zois

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Future Shows

Former Shows

Dan McCormack Varied Projects

January 8–February 21, 2010

Read David Brickman’s blog reviewing this show.

About the Artist

Dan McCormack began his relationship with photography in 1965 at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Aaron Siskind, Joseph Jachna, Arthur Siegel, and Wynn Bullock, who gave him his firsthand experience with “truly creative photographs.”

Around 1967, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he explored the figure by photographing his wife, Wendy, and making multiple image prints. This was the birthing of McCormack’s central theme of depicting the nude figure through various techniques and processes.

The Photography Center is featuring 10 of McCormack’s projects developed over the past 20 years, all concentrated on multiple facets of the figure. The variety embodied in this work demonstrates McCormack’s creative use of simple equipment and his mastery of chemical and digital processes. These projects include palladium and cyanotype diptychs, pattern, face scan, Lillith, photograms, novel Nimslo and Holga camera techniques, 4 × 4, and McCormack’s most noted and inimitable work with the pinhole camera.

The pinhole project was started in 1999 when McCormack started shooting with an oatmeal container. “The distortions of the round camera are constantly a surprise. I process the 8 × 10 inch B&W sheet film and scan the negative into the computer. I colorize the files in Photoshop by pulling curves seeking to make an expressive image. This project I have continued for 10 years and it still holds my interest.”

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