There is a significant 3D component to the new Digital Darkroom exhibition opening at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles on Saturday. The exhibition showcases the work of 17 photographers working in manipulated imagery, and includes the stereoscopic work of Claudia Kunin, Ted Grudowski, Mike Pucher, Chris Levine, and Christopher Schneberger.
Digital Darkroom is comprised of an 80-image print show with 2-6 images contributed by each of the featured photographers. Hundreds of additional images from Digital Darkroom’s photographers will also be showcased in vivid detail on the two 14′ by 7′ high-resolution screens in the Photography Space’s Digital Gallery.
The exhibition includes a 3D film shot in 5K resolution using RED EPIC cameras, presented in a specially created screening room. This film includes interviews with 3D experts and historians Ray Zone and David Kuntz, 3D artists Ted Grudowski and Christopher Schneberger, and explores how 3D artists Claudia Kunin and Mike Pucher photograph their subjects and alter them digitally to create 3D results. Key elements of the history of stereoscopic photography are also in the film.
The artists come from a range of backgrounds, each specializing in fine art, commercial art, portraiture, still life, fashion, architectural or other types of photographic and illustrative expression. However, many of the artists cross genres and combine multiple techniques to create their unique work. Serving as curatorial advisor for Digital Darkroom is Russell Brown, a Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated and an Emmy Award-winning instructor.
Digital Darkroom will run from December 17, 2011 through May 28, 2012.
The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.com