Artist Statement
3-D FAMILY GHOST STORIES
by
CLAUDIA KUNIN

When my father passed away in May of 2007, I inherited the family photographs and documents. I discovered pieces of an enigmatic past that existed before I was born. I recreated new images by montaging all these photographs together with imagery of my own, then manually converting them to 3-D. Though they can be seen with out the red/cyan glasses, the adding of the third dimension takes the viewer into a surreal space where dreams and memory abide. Process Statement
The original montaged image is for the right eye. I then make the image a second time for the left eye, in which I shift things either to the right or the left to make them appear to be in front or behind. I then remove all the red from the right eye image, and all the green and blue from the left eye image and paste the two images together. This then creates what is called an "anaglyph", which is a picture that is 3D when viewed with red/cyan glasses.

 

 

Claudia Kunin launched her career as a photographer in 1976 when she was first published in Rolling Stone magazine. She pursued commercial photography successfully for the next 30 years with intermittent shows of her fine art.

She now is solely pursuing her fine art, and has a number of bodies of accomplished and innovative work, including: “Revenant”, “3-D Ghost Stories”, “3-D Holy Ghost Stories”, and “3-D Family Ghost Stories”. She has had shows of her work all over the world, including New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Eyemazing, Camera Work, Focus, and most recently in B&W + Color magazines. Claudia was the recipient of two awards in the 2010 Prix de la Photographie Paris for her fine art. Claudia’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the George Eastman House, the Getty Research Institute, and the Museum of Photographic Arts. Her archive will be housed in the Smithsonian Institute of American History’s Photography Collection.

 

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