Dan Udell:
CLASS OF 1953
Ossining High SchoolClass of 1953
Ossining, NY
Dan's Story
Dan is from West Taghkanic, New York. Dan's schools include Ossining High School. Dan later graduated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BSc Mathematics and Physics). Dan works(ed) at Udell Communications, IBM.
He recently wrote a book, "Lucy and Max" an animal love story between a Canada Goose and a ferocious guard dog, available on Kindle or softcover on Amazon.
Music Dan likes includes: Bach, Mozart, John Coltrane.
One of Dan's favorite quotes is:"Success is 80 percent showing up.
Woody Allen".
More about Dan:"Writer, editor, photographer, videographer, grandfather, with Mary to 14 grandchildren". I still do a lot of videography. My video-index page is on You Tube: "udellcommunityaction."
Just to fill out the picture, here's a writeup for a photography show I did on the gardens of Mexico: Dan Udell says, “As a photographer, I see the light and colors of Mexico as stunning, and its people show a close connection to the earth – one that we in the U.S. Seem to have lost along the way. Our trips took us to the western Pacific Coast, the area south of Puerto Vallarta, and the interior sections including Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Puebla and other close-by areas. Udell says, “Mi foto es su foto.” Enjoy the exhibit.
Dan Udell was born in in Ossining, New York on t...Expand for more
he shores of the Hudson River. He graduated from RPI in Troy with a degree in Physics and Math. Then, a long career at IBM, serving as a science writer in many Communications departments across the company, in addition to photography and video. He worked all over the United States and the World. At the famed Watson Research Center, he worked with Henri Cartier Bresson on a book titled, “Man and Machine,” which includes a photo suggested by Udell. During the Shuttle Space program, he represented IBM at several launchings at Cape Canaveral. Taking photographs all the way, he began to exhibit at the Sound Shore Gallery in Port Chester, NY and Stamford, Connecticut and the Rosenethal Gallery at the Stamford Center dfor the Arts. He is in the MIT photography collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts in addition to collections at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, PepsiCo, GE, Merrill Lynch, MCI and the Benerofe and F.D. Rich properties.
The Dancers of Puebla photograph was taken on one of the trips mentioned earlier. Udell says, “The excited, flowing movements of the dancers, their joy and flowing skirts, arms and legs were magical.” The accompanying floral portraits accentuate the orange and yellow color which predominate in “Day of the Dead” chrysanthemum offerings.
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