Claudia Kunin

Claudia Kunin is an American artist, photographer, and author known for her 3D representations of 2D photographs Ms. Kunin creates 3-D photographic animations. Her work transposes photographic stills into moving narrative imagery.
Some of her art requires the use of red/cyan 3D glasses to experience its depth of field.

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.. 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 3D and animated images. She identifies Imogen Cunningham as a major source of inspiration.
Her short experimental film Spectre of Memory won the award for best short in its category at the BeFilm Underground Film Festival in 2014.
Her work received an honorable mention at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards in the Digital Manipulation and Collage Category Series.
For her work animating original images by Nadar, "Nadar Trio" took second place in video art from the International Photo Awards. In 2010, Claudia took first place in Fine Art Prix de la Photographie Paris for her still series "3D Family Ghost Stories". Kunin's work was in a juried selected show at the Museum of Photographic Arts entitled "State of Mind". Her image Angel is currently held by the National Portrait Gallery, a part of the Smithsonian Institution.