Dan McCormack
In this project I am working with a single cell phone camera image of a model nude in the studio and then dividing that image nine times. Next I reassemble those parts into a 3 x 3 GRID image
I began to make multiple images of the nude in a grid in 1967 when beginning my MFA Thesis in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The thesis was an exploration of Set Theory math. I found numeric rules to order the photographs, not design or composition rules.
I came back to grids in 1992 when I combined 24 images made with the Nimslo Camera. The Nimslo camera would take four half frame 35mm exposures when the shutter was released. With the Action Tracker Camera in 1999 I captured two moments in time but only a fraction of a second after the first exposure. So I combined two different moments ( four images ) in a row and then three more rows of related action. The final image had 16 images of a related pose.
I have been photographing the nude for over 50 years, exploring different cameras, processes and techniques. From the beginning of my working with the nude, I have been interested in making an image that says something, not being just a pretty image.
The idea of the repetition is to see how the repeating varied parts of the figure and objects the model holds would make the image unified and become more Interesting.
