David McGlynn is an artist living and working in New York City and Beverly, MA. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1979. Mr. McGlynn enjoys success as both a fine art photographer and as a professional commercial photographer. His specialty is photo collage, and he has been refining his unique style for the better part of three decades. He has shown his work at several group and solo shows, including the Alternative Museum, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Luring Augustine Gallery, the Neuberger Museum and Broadway Windows. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Erie Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Forbes Gallery Collection, and various private collections. In addition, he has created large-scale works for permanent installation for a variety of clients, including Disney/ESPN Zone restaurants, Fox Network headquarters, and AT&T Corporate Headquarters. His work has appeared in publications including WIRED, Newsweek, Time, Money, Forbes, Vibe, ESPN, New York Times, Traveler, Popular Science and Metropolitan Home. Corporate and advertising clients include Miller Brewing Company, ‘Absolut McGlynn’ for Absolut Vodka, Kodak Funsaver cameras, Compaq, American Express, Disney, Dime Bank, Polygram/Mercury Records, and the World Financial Center. Mr. McGlynn has received several awards including: American Photography Annual 7, 10, 11, 35; Society of Publication Designers Annual 18, 23, 27, 28 and 30; Graphis Poster and Graphis Digital. Portfolio spreads of his artwork have been published in: Life Magazine, Popular Photography, Idea (Japan), Photo Magazine (France), and Photo District News.
NYSE 2001 (exterior of New York Stock Exchange) is an analog photo collage created from 1-Hour photo prints shot with color negative film, and assembled by hand, in a time before Photoshop. Created for Business Week magazine in 2001. For similar images see: Pro Collage.
ESPN ZONE MARATHON SKETCH 2004 is an analog photo collage sketch photographed with color negative film and printed on 1-hour photo prints. It was created as a study for a permanent installation in ESPN ZONE / Disney Restaurant in Times Square 2004 (see below).
ESPN ZONE INSTALLATION AESPN ZONE INSTALLATION BNYC MARATHON – Photo print collage – Client: ESPN Zone / Disney
XEROX 1981 is an analog photo collage created as a composite panoramic contact print from color negatives on chromogenic paper. One of the early images in this series depicting 360 X 180 degrees, it is made from 75 35MM exposures. The location is the Xerox Corporate Headquarters lobby in Stamford CT.
MONTAUK DIPTYCH is part of a series of simple two-frame panoramas shot in 1986-88 on color negative filmed and printed on chromogenic paper. Photographed with an Olympus OM-1 with a specially filed out back to eliminate the spacing between frames on the film. I’m pretty sure it is Montauk. I think it was 1986. I believe I also used the toilet paper tube filter here….
COLLAGE OF MAN’S EYE 1998 is an analog mini-collage, shot with color negative film and printed onto 1-hour photo paper. It is part of a series created for Wal-Mart in 1998.
MONA LISA KALEIDOSCOPE is an analog 35MM transparency image created with a kaleidoscopic mirror device. It was created for WIRED magazine issue 1, in 1993.
SHAMANZNBRIDGES 1979 is the first of the full-size composite panoramic contact prints I began making in 1979. It is shot with 5 rolls of Kodak Tri-X film and printed onto B&W fiber paper. After earlier panoramic experiments the prior year, I had conceptualized a way to depict 360 x 360 degrees on a flat surface. I built a device (wooden frame visible) to enable the trusty Olympus OM-1 to turn 360 degrees on both the horizontal and vertical axis. Together with my Shaman jacket wearing friends Chris, Jim, Joe, and Jeff, we ventured into the Bronx to a special spot next to the Major Deegan, under the (Martha) Washington Bridge. This is the result, 150 exposures later, nicknamed ‘ShamanznBridges’.