Claudia Kunin
Claudia Kunin | |
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Artist's image, titled Deconstructing Mommy, subtitled "The puzzle of figuring out my mother's past" | |
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) Los Angeles, California |
| Education | Bachelor of science |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon |
| Website | www |
Claudia Kunin (/ˌkjuːnən/, born 1954) is an American artist, photographer, and author known uniquely for animating photographs to make time-based narrative tales. Kunin has forged an artistic field of her own making. [1] Some of her art requires the use of red/cyan 3D glasses to experience its depth of field.[2]
Career
Kunin's professional life began with a degree in psychology. She quickly became disillusioned with this, however, and began working as a commercial photographer for companies such as AT&T, American Express, Wells Fargo Bank, Concorde Pictures, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Ford Motor Co., Sprint Communications, Rolling Stone, Martha Stewart, Wm. Morrison and Penguin Books.[3]. At the age of 50, she retired from commercial photography to pursue work as a fine artist. Using her collection of previous photographic work as well as family photographs, she develops them into stills, and later, animated images. She counts Imogen Cunningham as a source of inspiration.[1]
Her experimental film Spectre of Memory won the award for best short in its category at the BeFilm Underground Film Festival in 2014.[4]
Her work received an honorable mention at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards in the Digital Manipulation and Collage Category Series.[5]
Claudia took first place in Fine Art Prix de la Photographie Paris for her still series "3D Family Ghost Stories". [6] For her work animating original images by Nadar, "Nadar Trio" took second place in video art from the International Photo Awards.[7] In 2010, Kunin's work was in a juried selected show at the Museum of Photographic Arts entitled "State of Mind". [8] Her image Angel is currently held by the National Portrait Gallery, a part of the Smithsonian Institution.[9]
References
- ^ a b Catherine Kirkpatrick (7 March 2012). "30 by 30:Claudia Kunin/ Imogen Cunnningham". Professional Women Photographers.
- ^ Lawrence Lai (25 November 2011). "Digital Darkroom: An Exploration of Altered Realities". ABC News.
- ^ "Claudia Kunin: The Holy Ghost Stories". iPhotoCentral.
- ^ "Artist Claudia Kunin Wins Best Short "Experimental" Film at BeFilm Underground Film Festival in NYC". iPhoto Central. 2014.
- ^ "16TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD RESULTS".
- ^ Aline Smithson (22 December 2011). "The Digital Darkroom At The Annenberg Space For Photography".
- ^ "Trio From Nadar in 3D". International Photo Awards. 2019.
- ^ W.S.diPiero (5 May 2010). "States of Mind".
- ^ "Angel".