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.

August 30, 2017

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S 1995
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S 1995

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S 1995 is a pairing of a preparatory sketch and the final production art of an analog photo collage advertisement for Kodak Funsaver Pocket cameras, thru J. Walter Thompson advertising. One of 3 collages created for the campaign, they were all photographed with the Funsaver one-time-use cameras.

August 27, 2017

DIPTYCH OPUS 40 1986
DIPTYCH OPUS 40 1986

DIPTYCH OPUS 40 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. This image was photographed at the Opus 40 Sculpture Park in Woodstock, NY.

August 26, 2017

WOODLAWN CEMETERY (SOLARIZED)
WOODLAWN CEMETERY (SOLARIZED)

WOODLAWN CEMETERY (solarized) is an early composite panoramic photo collage. It is a contact print of 35MM color negatives printed on chromogenic paper. It is a solarized version of UNTITLED,WOODLAWN CEMETERY – the print is exposed to light briefly during the development.

August 25, 2017

WIRED 1.1 1993
WIRED 1.1 1993

WIRED 1.1  is a multiple image print created for WIRED magazine issue 1, in 1993. It is a non-digital Cibachrome print, using a mix of transparency & negative film images of the Mona Lisa. Some of the effects and colors were created during the shooting, and the others were created in the enlarger during the printing phase.