POOL TWO 1983 is an analog photo collage created as a composite panoramic contact print from color negatives, printed on chromogenic paper. It was shot underwater with a Nikonos II.
November 30, 2017
Author: David McGlynn
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.
November 29, 2017
UNTITLED DIPTYCH 1986 is part of a series of simple two-frame panoramas shot in 1986-88. Photographed with an Olympus OM-1 with a specially filed out back to eliminate the spacing between frames on the film. Each diptych is shot ‘live’ in the camera. Photographed with long exposures using a flash, to create a frozen/motion painterly effect, using color negative film enlarged onto Chromogenic paper.
November 28, 2017
ATLAS 1987 is an analog photo collage created as a composite panoramic contact print from color negatives, printed on chromogenic paper. It is a picture of an Atlas Weeping Cedar, one of the many unusual trees on the (then) East Hampton estate of Alfonso Ossorio.
November 27, 2017
BODY BUILDER SKETCH 1992 is an analog photo collage made from 1-Hour Photo prints. It is a preparatory sketch for Body Builder, which was created for Polygram Records and eventually published by Money Magazine in 1992.
November 26, 2017
HELLGATE 1996 is an analog composite panoramic photo collage shot on Ilford X-P1 film, and printed on chromogenic color paper as a large contact print. The shifting color tones are created under the enlarger with stencils and colored gels. Shot with my trusty Olympus OM-1 which I had specially filed out by the esteemed Marty Forscher of Professional Camera Repair in NYC, to eliminate the spacing in between frames. It is four section of the Hellgate Bridge in Queens, NY.
November 25, 2015
CHIHULY STUDY 2017 is a digital panorama shot with an iPhone 6 and finished in Photoshop. Photographed at the Chihuly Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY.
November 24, 2017
THE FREMONT EXPERIENCE 2017 is a digital photo collage made from images found on Google Earth in the vicintity of Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Assembled in Photoshop.
November 23, 2017
FORBES SKETCH 1991 is an analog photo collage shot on color negative film and assembled from 1-Hour Photo prints. It is a preliminary sketch for Poolside With Bush, part of a series of parody artworks representing then POTUS George H. W. Bush, commissioned by Forbes Magazine / Isley Design, and published in 1991. I was asked to parody the photo style of David Hockney (it’s a long story… stay tuned!) For the sketch and the final art, I used family members, cousins and friends as models, including my father as George(!)
November 22, 2017
TUBA RECITAL PROMO 1988 is an analog strip panorama made from color negative film shot with an OM-1 and printed onto chromogenic paper, which was fashioned into a continuous Möbius strip objet d’art. It is a rendering of the 25th Annual Merry Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center. I created it as a holiday promotion piece which I mailed to clients in 1988. It won an award for self-promotion and appeared in HOW magazine in 1989.
November 21, 2017
RUNNING IN CIRCLES 1998 is an analog photo collage created from color negative images shot with a Nikon D90s and assembled from 1-hour photo prints.
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