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C E NTER NEWSuly 2008ContentsCoverArticlesOld Geezerby George King(No, this is not a portrait of a typical stereographer, even though we are gettingolder! See article page 3.)Center News is published quarterly as a benefi t forFriends of the Center :3D Center of Art & Photography1928 NW Lovejoy, Portland, OR 97209503-227-6667Copyright ©2008 3D Center of Art and Photography Vol. 5 No. 3 July 2008Editor: Diane Rulien Editor@The 3D Center is a 501(c)3 non-profi t corporation. Our vision is to provide a home for the past, present & future of three-dimensional imagery.2 Message from the Director by Paul Brenner3 “Window Shopping” by George King4 Friends Meeting Friendsby Mart McCann5 First Friends Appreciation Event by Diane Rulien6 New Selections from the Collections by Paul Brenner7 Helping Newbies Experience... by Diane Rulien8 Coming to the Center/Gift shop calendarpreparations for the NSA conference in Grand Rapids. I very much look forward to meeting many of you there. Several of the Center’s Board members (who I’m sure you have already met) will be there as well. We also look forward to the opening of the next exhibition, “Window Shopping” by George King. His striking anaglyphs, shot with a single digital camera slid along store windows in the U.S. and Europe, are as drolly humorous as they are technically masterful. I’m sure the cover image brought a smile to your face.This June the 3D Center hosted “3D Photo Booth.” A spin-off of “3D Photos with Santa” which takes place in December, the summer Photo Booth was so successful we plan to make it an annual event as well. Over 30 people and groups had their photos taken and some of the sample images are posted on the Friends Only section of the 3D Center website. Events like this help us to make 3D photography accessible and interesting for a general audience, which is, after all, why the 3D Center exists.It’s not all fun and games here all of the time (darn ;-!) as a subcommittee of the Board and I have been meeting recently to discuss long term planning and strategizing for the future of the 3D Center. I must admit, the plans are ambitious, but with a dedicated base of supporters like you, I know we can make large strides in the next few years. The resulting goals and timetables where submitted to the Board of Directors which provided unanimous approval.One of the Board members participating in these meetings was Ray Zone, a newly elected member of the Board. Ray (who telecommutes to meetings here in Portland from sunny L.A.), is full of new ideas for programs the Center can develop and ways to promote these activities. We welcome his energy and enthusiasm!The 3D Center has recently had some notable success in fundraising for public educational programs. Many thanks to the Portland-based J.W. & H.M. Goodman Family Charitable Foundation for a $5000 award to expand outreach to schoolgroups, offer scholarships to local students to take 3D Center classes, and offer additional educational opportunities during the 2008-2009 school year.We also recently received a $1000 award from the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition to repeat a successful program of free admission weekends that was fi rst organized in spring 2007. This MCCC Cultural Participation grantallows us to make 3D Center programs accessible to all residents of Multnomah County (the greater Portland area) regardless of their ability to pay the admission fee. This initiative is funded by the Oregon Cultural Trust, an innovative program that allows donors to qualifi ed non-profi ts in the state (the 3D Center is on this list) to make a matching contribution to the Trust and thereby earn a hefty credit on the amount of state income tax due. If you live in Oregon and want to learn more about this program, check out .Personal thanks must also be given here to the Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland which has awarded me a Professional Development grant that will partially fund my trip to Grand Rapids for the NSA convention. It will be a great opportunity for a 3D neophyte like me to learn techniques, see tons of 3D imagery, and, of course, meet some of you.Thanks to all of you who have already responded to the membership renewal campaign mailed out several weeks ago. The number of responses has been terrifi c. If you haven’t yet made your renewal contribution, please do so. You don’t want this to be your last issue of Center News , do you?Hope you have a great summer.Paul BrennerDirectorHello Friends of the 3D Center:“Window Shopping”Just one of the things George likes to do...Autobiography by George KingI was raised in theSan Franciscoarea in the postWW2 era where I wasexposed to photographyby helping my parentsaround their professionalphoto studio. I rememberagitating chemical trayswhile being just tallenough to reach thetrays. They mostly shot weddings, school groups, andthe typical graduation mug shots. My father did enjoy artphotography, however, and attended workshops conductedby Ansel Adams. My father worshipped the man, and madesure I had the opportunity to meet him.I kept up my interest in photography during both myschool and early work years, but managed to develop anallergy reaction to the chemicals by my late twenties. Thatwas the end of any aspirations, but not my passion forphotography.I was an art major in college, and used that interest tomake a living for my entire working career. After movingto Portland in the early seventies I started a companydesigning and manufacturing jewelry for all the majordepartment stores, gift shops etc.I changed direction in the mid eighties, moving intolighting design, first designing for, and later managinga local company. In the early nineties I started my ownlighting design and manufacturing company, using theproceeds from a patent I held for the invention of anenergy efficient lighting concept. My company, which isstill located in Portland, specializes in period and antiquefixtures for public buildings and other restoration projects.At my leaving in 2007, I turned the company over to theperson that helped make the company a success.My interest in photography was rekindled by digitalphotography, first taking pictures during the many tripsarranged by my wife over the past decade. In the past fewyears I found that taking pictures became my reason fortravel. My time between the month long trips was absorbedby the required processing and printing, so I just didn’t haveany time left for my business. I now give my energies to anever widening interest in photography.I was introduced to 3D photography by the openingof the 3D Center in what was my neighborhood. I took allthe classes provided by Shab Levy, and with his guidance,built a digital 3D camera. I discovered, however, thatI preferred the challenges and spontaneity of shootingwith a conventional digital camera, rather than dependingon specialized 3D equipment, so that I can mix up myphoto shooting sessions with both 3D and conventionalphotography.The mannequin photographs which are the focus of“Window Shopping,” on exhibition at the 3D Center fromJuly 3 through September 6, came from my fascination witha number of films that have as a theme either a mannequincoming to life, or some lonely guy living a fantasy peopledby mannequins. Mannequins are the “beautiful people” inour urban environment; they are the best dressed, alwaysat play, while we rush through our day. It’s not difficult toimagine these silent onlookers comparing comments afterhours. However, these happy folk are quickly disappearingfrom our stores and window displays, replaced by headlessdress forms and photo back-drops. I understand they havebecome too expensive to purchase, and require too muchtime and expertise to maintain.My current project is very different; macrophotographs of objects which in two dimension are nonobjective abstractions. These same photos, when viewedwith anaglyphic glasses, become understandable as a formor object.Friends Meeting Friends by Mart McCannAs a regular feature, we hope to acquaint you with other Friends of the Center in the community of stereo photographers and collectors. This is the third in a series.Portrait Mart McCann (right) by Larry Fergusion“One’s smart, the other’s funny.” That’s inscribed on a stone marker outside the house Bob Venezia shares with his wife, Mandy, one of the country’s best criminal defense attorneys. His admiration for her is almost palpable as he describes herselection for the ACLU’s John Adams Project. As a long-time, card-carrying member of the ACLU myself, it was hard not to go off on a tangent. But we’ll stick to the funny one, as he’s the stereographer.My editor, bless her heart, asked me to write a profile that shared more than how someone got started in stereophotography and why they think the 3D Center is so important, so I looked around for a truly unique personality. I knew Bob Venezia was funny. We are both members of the Puget Sound Stereo Camera Club, and Bob gets a laugh at every meeting, but I had no idea he was that funny. In 1979, Bob came to San Francisco for a social services job that never materialized and found himself “…with no money and no prospects, but I knew a few magic tricks.” So he began performing at the corner of Beach and Larkin, outside Ghirardelli Square. Within a short time, he was performinginsideTheCannery a fewblocks away.Bob’s earliest character was Polaris the Venezia’s Mesa Arch at Sunrise has won awards in several stereo exhibitions.Bob Venezia as “El Profundo.”Dodecahedron by Bob Venezia. Tom Noddy, The Bubble Guy and subject of this portrait, helped Bob connect with the west coast Vaudeville community.Wizard. Subsequent years brought on a menagerie of magical characters, including Alfredo Fettuccinni, a boy-man with an overabundance of enthusiasm, and ElProfundo, whom Bob describes as being “powerful and angry,” but apparently funny, too.Around 1982, Tom Noddy, “The Bubble Guy” came through town and told Bob about the west coast new Vaudeville community, which gravitated toward the Oregon Country Fair, an arts and crafts festival with a large entertainment element. The OCF is a juried festival, and once accepted, artists frequently hold onto their spots for years. Well guess who’s going back to the Oregon Country Fair for the first time in 15 years? Yes! El Profundo! I was ready to start looking for a hotel room in Eugeneuntil Bobtold methat he’ll beperformingat the same time the NSAconvention will be held in GrandRapids.Sometime in the early 80s, Bob started performing withBliss Kolb, a skilled craftsman,award winning designer, and “my best friend.” The two were known as Laughing Moon Theatre, and theirletterhead proclaimed, “In a city full of crazy people, we’re professionals.” Their show, which Bob says worked best in small theatres of about 100 seats, was called “Sleep Tight – an evening of magic, video and deranged comedy.” It opened with a scene out of Kafka’sMetamorphosis, in which a man wakes up in his own bed to find himself transformed into a giant insect. In “The Production of Any MealCalled From a Gentleman’s Top Hat,” Bob played a current-day “wrangler”of a turn-of-the-last-century magician.Bliss, as the magician, was wheeled onstage in an exquisitely-crafted box of his own construction, an old theatre trunk covered with travel stickers. An audience member was called upon to choose the meal from a menu (#3 wasthe only item on the menu), which was then produced from the contents of the top hat. Sure-fire, bullet proof comedy.So how does a performance artist in San Francisco wind upas a Seattle-based graphics designer? “Sleep Tight” was brought to Seattle by The Flying Karamazov Brothers, and Bob met Mandy (the smart one) at one of the first shows. As one of Microsoft’s former “perma-temps,” Bob now works for a year and then takes 100 days off.Those of us who are lucky enough to see Bob’s stereo images on a regular basis are all familiar with his spectacular night photography,particularly of carnival rides at the Puyallup Fair. “Carnival rides are the perfect subject, they fire on all the cylinders for me as they’re somewhat surreal. 3D makes me feel like a kid again, and so do carnival rides.” Most of his exposures are 4 seconds on ISO 100 film at F16. “I like how much happens in four seconds, although eight at F22 works well, too.”Seattle Center, where the ’62Worlds Fair was held, is another favorite subject. “I keep finding more and more great shots down there.” The monorail gliding past the Experience Music Project building, designed by Frank Gehry, is just one example.“I was out just last night. I got a view of Seattle from the 12th Avenue Bridge. The bridge is painted industrial green, but in the long exposure, it looks like solid gold.”When our conversation ended,Bob promised to send me an image of El Profundo. Accompanying the file was the following note: “Utah Phillips, an old friend of mine, once said it’s important to keep track of who youowe, and there are a couple of people that should be mentioned in any profile of me as a 3d photographer. One is Susan Pinsky, who harassed me into finding my local 3d club. And the other is Don Lopp,without whose amazing generosity and friendship, I would be nowhere near the photographer I am today.”No, I never asked Bob how he got started in stereophotography. I never even mentioned the 3D Center, but Bob is a Charter Member of Friends of the Center. Enough said.El Profundo will beperforming at the Oregon Country Fair () which runs from July 11-13 just west of Eugene, OR. The Flying Karamazov Brothers are performing in Washington state throughout July and early August (). If you go to and click on Theatrical State Sets, you can see the Kafka scene. And to learn more about the ACLU’s John Adams project, see /johnadams.First Friends Appreciation Event Scheduled at the close of the PSA Convention in Portland, ORIt is long overdue, but as you can well imagine we have been pretty busy the past 4 years! On Sunday after-noon, September 7, a Friends appreciation event will be held at Rich and Susan Dubnow’s home in Beavercreek outside of Portlad. The event will be a time to celebrate what has been accomplished, talk about what is going on in the stereo community and look ahead. Of coursethere will be food and drink - a barbeque, salads, desert and some beer and wine. The entertainment is still in the planning stages, but Rich has offered to fire off his cannon (after giving notice to his neighbors!) Rich’s business, Im-age 3D is located within walking distance of his home so by Diane RulienThe Center will be helping with programming for the stereo theatre at the PSA Convention in Portland. Several shows from the Center’s collection will beprojected. While the convention is in town, visitors to the Center will see JohnHart’s Liquid Magic in the Center’s stereo theatre. Hart’s show was a great success when first presented at the Center in 2006. George King’s Window Shopping will be showing in the Center’s gallery (see article page 3.)there will be an opportunity to see his operation and ask questions.The PSA Convention runs from August 31 through September 6 in Portland so it is hoped that those from out of town will stay an extra day to enjoy this festivity. Not only are many Friends of the Center PSA members, but the PSA Stereo Division is a Club member of Friends of the Center . The event is open to all Friends of the Center and their guests. If we have your current email address, you will be getting an emailed invitation. Information will also be available on the Friends Only page of our website. If we don’t have your current email address, go to and click on the link at the top of the page, “Contact,” and email Paul with your up to date contact info. Plan to join the fun!New Selections from the Collections by Paul BrennerThe 3D Center is now nationally recognized as one of the premier repositories for historical information, images, and equipment related to stereoscopy. We are therefore frequently contacted by people hoping to find a permanent home for 3D items for which they no longer have space or that they have recently acquired from an estate. We encourage these types of donations to the 3D Center and work continues here to catalog the collection and display select items in the museum when possible.We have recently been given two exceptional items, one of which is now on display at the 3D Center; a well-known collection of stereoviews by the Keystone View Company: “World War through the Stereoscope.” Keystone began publishing this series of stereoviews in 1923 in four collections of various sizes (75, 100, 200 and 300 cards). The one now owned by the Center is the 100 card set, in a box crafted to appear as a stack of 2 black books, the most popular design forholding these boxed sets.The images in this series werephotographed for Keystone byAndrew S. Iddings and the text waswritten by Joseph Mills Hanson.Each card has detaileddescriptive information on the reverseof views from various battles, militaryformations and operations, medicalfacilities, scenes of destruction andeven some gruesome images ofcorpses. The descriptive informationthus provides an extensive historyof World War I, while also offeringan interesting, early 20th centuryperspective on the march of time.For example, text on the reverse of“French Troops Inspecting a WreckedZeppelin” #18632 includes this bit offoresight regarding the zeppelin, “Itsgreatest service will be performedin time of peace. Before many yearsKipling’s ‘Night Mail’ will become areality. The air will be marked out inlines of travel as the ocean is today.From New York, London, Paris andother metropolises huge liners of theair will fly to all points of the compass,ships 200 yards long, traveling 100miles an hour and carrying tons ofmail and scores of passengers.”In conjunction with thestereoview sets, Keystone published a500 page book in 1927 which includesthe images, descriptive information,maps, and a guide to studying the warthrough stereo imagery (this book iscurrently available on CD). Manyimages from the series can also beseen at /~j.p1/ww1/worldwar.html.“World War Through theStereoscope” was donated to the 3DCenter by Ron Palmer of CottageGrove, OR. Though not a collector ofstereoscopy, Ron acquired the set afterhis mother passed away last year. Ronremembers viewing them as a child inthe Portland home of his grandfather,who originally purchased them in themid-1920s after his son (Ron’s uncle)Learning to Use Gas Masks: The officer before us is instructing his squad in the use of gas masks. Thorough drill in this is of the utmost importance, for a few seconds delay in adjusting his mask in a gas attack ay incapacitate a soldier for service and subject him to weeks of agony, if not death.The Germans were the first to use poison gas in the war, expelling it from metal tubes and trusting to the wind to carry it down upon our allies. This method was soon discarded in favor of gas shells, which they used extensively, sometimes one shell in every three being filled with gas. It became necessary to equip every man in our army with a mask and drill him in the use of it. These masks fit so closely that air cannot enter the nostrils except through the breathing tube. The general principle on which they are constructed is this – that the inhaled air is drawn through certain substances which absorb the gas before it can get into the mask, while the breath which a soldier exhales escapes from the mask through a rubber valve opening only on pressure from the inside. The mask is carried in a canvas case, ready for instant use. A soldier, expert in the use of his mask, can put it on in about ten seconds.Soldiers do not like to wear the mask and will often take great risks rather than be annoyed with them, for even the best of them add somewhat to the difficulty of breathing. Then too, moisture which accumulates inside the mask dims the eye glasses and it becomes difficult to see. Throughout the war there was constant effort to produce a gas against which no mask would be effective. The Germans used phosgene, mustard gas, lachrymal gas and others, but our chemists devised masks effective against each.(information from the back of this stereocard)had served in the Great War. Thank you Ron for this fascinating piece of 3D history!Another notable addition to the collection at the 3D Center came from Raymond Welcox of Portland who happened upon the Center earlier this year and returned several weeks later with the donationof one volume (10 reels) of the“Stereoscopic Atlas of HumanAnatomy” published by theSawyer’s Company (View-Master)in Portland in 1954.This ground-breaking seriesof reels and descriptive books withdetailed diagrammatic drawingswas the brain-child of View-Master inventor William Gruber in partnership with David L. Bassett of the Stanford School of Medicine. Begun in 1948 and not completed until 1962, the entire series consistsof 221 View-Master reels with 1554color stereoviews of dissections of every body region. The images werepainstakingly created by Gruber andBassett with high-resolution Kodak film that provides remarkable clarity even 50 years later. These stereoscopic images are still consideredthe definitive dissection collection available to medical students and instructors. Bassett images can be found in most anatomy textbooks and as the trend towards using fewer cadavers in medical schools continues, the use of these images is growing.The original collection of images now belongs to Stanford University (donated by Bassett’s children upon his death in 1966) and is under the care of Robert Chase, curator of the Bassett collection and also a Friend of the Center . We are currently exploring the possibility of exhibiting part of the collection at the 3D Center in 2009. You can preview some of the images (alas, in 2D only for now) at the following site: /photos/stanfordmedicine/setsSources used for this article:Hickman, Sandy,“World War IKeystone View Stereocard,” Faded Rose Antiques website, 20 June 2008.Leonard, Robert James, “Verdun:Then & Now,” Stereo World , V ol. 24, # 3. White, Tracie, “Dazzling dissection images from famed Bassett collection now online,” Stanford School of Medicine website, 20 February 2008.Helping Newbies experience the Fun of 3DAn enlarged stereo pair from one of the reels included in with the book.The Center’s Board and staff search constantly for new ways to bring the uninitiated to the world of 3D. Classes in various aspects of stereoscopy, public events including 3D pic-tures with Santa in December and most recently the 3D Photo Booth weekend allow visitors to experience the fun of 3D and take home a souvenir of the experience. The Center’s most re-cent grant will allow us money to publicize 3 weekends of free activities to the public. V olunteers will make it happen. Each time the Center schedules and promotes such events, the world of 3D gains new enthusiasts.Purists will point out that the images are not perfect. They were taken with a Pentax digital camera using a lens in a cap. This system does allow the images to be taken and a stereo pair printed out while the visitors wait. However, the black line between the images and no time for making pho-toshop corrections, means that the novice may be delighted with the result, but an experienced stereographer wouldbe discontent. It is a trade-off, but the public continues to be enthusiastic about the results.by Diane RulienHappenings at the CenterFROM OUR ONLINE GIFT SHOP3D Center of Art and Photography is a non-profi t corporation dedicated to supporting, promoting and preserving 3D imagery of all kinds. In order to continue its programs the Center depends on donations from those who enjoy 3D.To become a Friend of the Center , make a tax deductible contribution, or volunteer to help the Center, please fi ll in below and mail to:3D Center, 1928 NW Lovejoy, Portland, OR 97209I want to join Friends of the Center and receive free Center admission and online Friends only page, 10% off Center purchases, and Center News quarterly.Do you want 100% of your donation to be tax-deductible? Yes, all tax deductible_____No, please send me any additional gift premiums offered for membership. I understand that this will reduce the amount that is tax-deductible _______Basic membership ($60):$______ (individual membership) Level 2 membership ($120): $______ (family membership) Level 3 membership ($240): $______(Supporter membership)Annual memberships begin upon receipt of donation and rununtil the end of June the following year.PLEASE PRINTName_______________________________________Address_____________________________________City________________________________________State__________________Zip___________________Phone_______________________________________Email_______________________________________Card No._____________________________Exp date_____________Signature_____________________________Print name____________________________I enclose my check, payable to 3D Center.Visa MasterCardPlease charge my cred i t card:Please contact me:I have items to donate to the Center I can work shifts at the Center I can help with Center News I have products for the gift shopI want to exhibit 3D art (slides/prints) I would like to help in other waysJuly 3 through September 7In the Gallery: Window Shopping by George King I n the Theatre: Liquid Magic by John HartPublic ClassesIntro to Photoshop for Stereographers (4 wks beg 7/23) Instructor: LevySunday, September 7First Friends Appreciation Event (see article p. 5)The 3D Center thanks the following for their generous support in 2007/8:Shab Levy’s new PracticalGuide to learning the prin-ciples and application of 3D imagery is a must for the new student or the long time en-thusiast who wants a bit more information or a “brush up.” $40 General$36 Friends of the CenterPrice includes shippingAutzen FoundationJ.W. & H.M.This group picturewas taken during the “3D Photo Booth” weekend at the Center. See Paul’s letter to Friends of the Center , page 2. People who knew nothing about the Center and little about 3D got ex-cited about having a souvenir of their visit!。