Art Exhibition

Canyons: Real and Ideal
by John Hart

This exhibit is composed of 12 stereo pairs. The first six images are of real canyons in Utah and Arizona. The contours of rock, sculpted by air and water, are remarkable, with incredible colors and textures. To explore these canyons one often needs ropes to descend the steep cracks, and protection against freezing water, especially in deep water-filled potholes that must be crossed with care. 3D photography can capture the essence of this geology, since the narrow features have a natural near-far perspective.

But the ideal topographies, the “canyons of my dreams”, are found in an entirely different stereoscopic venue. Microscopic crystals, grown when a melted liquid, consisting of a chemical-mixture, cools on a microscope slide, have incredible, unworldly, crevices and crannies. These are revealed through special stereoscopic micro-photography developed by the artist over the last few years. This “geography of microspace” is reminiscent of the structures of real slot canyons, but are even more convoluted and complex. An ideal place to throw out a rope and start down-climbing!

These latter images will be part of a stereoscopic book “Crystal Canyons”, that can be viewed with a special 3D print/book viewer developed by the artist, John Hart. It will go on sale in late November. Please visit www.mirscope.com . John’s other photographic websites are www.stereo3dgallery.net and www.crystalcanyons.net .

Stereo Theatre

Dwarfs Build a Castle
by Kurt Bauer

This charming story of Lego men building a Lego castle is a delight for all ages. Kurt Bauer, an Austrian stereographer used great music and a vivid imagination to enchant the attendees of the 2005 International Stereoscopic Union. Now the 3D Center is able to present the program to Center visitors. The story is universal and defies all boundaries and times.

Art Exhibition

Landscapes and Interiors
by David Lee

It's difficult for photographer David Lee not to be exhilarated by the brilliant landscapes surrounding him in his native Northern California; the majestic Yosemite National Park is a frequent subject of Lee's stunning medium-format stereo photographs. In Landscapes and Interiors, experience Lee's stereoscopic views of Yosemite and other California scenes. The exhibition also includes a series of beautiful, quiet interiors that echo the Old West.

Stereo Theatre

Art in Depth
by Jim Long

Have you ever wanted to walk into a scene in a painting? Here is your chance to experience art history like never before! Jim Long has painstakingly rendered a selection of classic paintings into three dimensions, affording the viewer a brand new way of looking at art. Intrigued by the complicated process of converting a two-dimensional image into 3D, Long set about creating Art in Depth. The result is an amazing tour of the Masters, including Van Gogh, Botticelli, and Monet, to name just a few.

Art Exhibition

Transformations
by Boris Starosta

Over the past few years, photographer Boris Starosta has become both fascinated and frustrated by the constant changes in today's modern world. Like many of us in the throes of daily life, he has often encountered scenes and places that he would like to revisit with his camera. On return trips to capture the images, he has increasingly found different, even unrecognizable scenes, transformed by modern life's construction and progress. In this exhibition, Starosta documents a selection of these transformations, on view in the Gallery through April 8th.

Please join us for a First Thursday reception on March 1st, from 6-9pm!

Stereo Theatre

A Case of Levitation: The Story of Frances Naylor
by Christopher Schneberger

Frances Naylor's legs were amputated when she was only two years old. But when she was thirteen Frances began having powerful dreams that she could walk. One morning, after waking from such a dream she leapt from bed and found she was able to levitate. Her mother was a devoutly religious woman and forbade Frances from displaying this ability outside of the house. Her father was fascinated however, and made a number of stereo photographs of his daughter as she floated about their house. Just as mysteriously, Frances lost the ability after a few weeks, and the photographs her father made remain as the only record of this amazing occurrence. Witness these photographs for yourself in Christopher Schneberger's digital 3D slide show, through April 8th.

Please join us for a First Thursday reception on March 1st, from 6-9pm!

Art Exhibition

The Magic of View-Master
by the 3D Center of Art & Photography

In 1938, a Portland, OR man named William Gruber invented one of the most beloved childhood toys, the View-Master. This local favorite has fallen into the hands and hearts of many a youngster, from nine to ninety.

The Magic of View-Master will take a stroll through the history of the View-Master company. The exhibition will included numerous pieces of View-Master history, such as cameras, viewers, reels and projectors.

A highlight of the exhibition will be original sculptures from View-Master artist, Joe Liptak. Mr. Liptak hand-crafted many of the best View-Master sets in the 1970's including Cinderella, the Jungle Book and the Flintstones. A selection of Mr. Liptak's creations will be on display in the Gallery.

The 3D Center will host two evening discussions about the View-Master company with Mr Liptak and Rich Dubnow, owner of Image3D. For information about the events and tickets, please click on the "Special Events" button.

Stereo Theatre

View-Master Through the Ages
by the 3D Center of Art & Photography

This digital 3D slide show will take the viewer on a tour through the various themes of View-Master reels, from the early productions through present-day reels.

Art Exhibition

DOR Refraction Photography
by David Sterner

Two decades ago, David Sterner received national media coverage for the patent of a unique photographic art lens called the DOR Refractor. While Portlanders viewed his early photographic experiments at an OMSI exhibit in June 1987, Discover Magzine referred to him as, "The young Portland, Oregon neo-Pythagorean" in reference to his concept that the lens shape was the ideal combination of the sphere and the cube. In 1995, he concluded his photographic experiments and directed his focus toward the mathematics of the lens shape. This exhibit will feature the last of Sterner's photographic works.

The original DOR Refractor, used to create his images, will be on display at the 3D Center, accompanied by the original patent issued in 1986. News clips from Portland, Oregon television channels, featuring the birth of Refraction Photographs nearly twenty years ago, will also be available for viewing.

While documenting the many special photographic effects that could be created with his lens, Sterner developed a unique type of three-dimensional print called a DOR Refraction Photograph. The largest DOR Refraction photograph of its kind to be printed, titled The Pheasant, will highlight the exhibition.

Art Exhibition

Lenticulars
by Daniel Teafoe

Daniel Teafoe creates unique lenticular prints by converting two-dimensional prints to 3D using computer software. The 3D Center Gallery will feature a selection of Teafoe's prints.

The anaglyph image above will be featured as a lenticular print in the Gallery.

Stereo Theatre

Life Under the Sea
by Takashi Sekitani

Explore undersea depths in Takashi Sekitani's movie, Life Under the Sea.

Stereo Theatre

A Better Mousetrap
by Ron Labbe

Remember the board game, Mousetrap? Ron Labbe's mouse may just have the secret power needed to escape the board game's traps... but can he stand up to a real mousetrap? See for yourself in Labbe's 1 minute CGI movie, A Better Mousetrap.

Both Labbe's and Sekitani's 3D movies will be viewed with special NuVision LCD glasses manufactured by local 3D company, MacNaughton, Inc.

NuVision Active LCD glasses are actually fast-switching shutters with internal electronic circuits. The glasses are synchronized with the left and right images produced by the digital projector. All the glasses in the theatre are remotely controlled with a signal produced by the projectors. When the projector displays the right eye image, all the glasses in the theatre have the right shutter open and the left close. When the left eye image is projected, the projectors send a signal to the LCD glasses to open the left shutter and close the right, thus directing the correct image to the respective eye. The glasses switch very fast, thus merging the left and right images into a single, 3D image.

The NuVision active LCD glasses produced by MacNaughton, Inc. have the advantage that they can be used in any theatre wtih any 3D projection system.

Art Exhibition

The History of 3D Comics
by The 3D Center of Art & Photography in partnership with Ray Zone

For a brief period between 1953 and 1954, 3D comics took the comic industry by storm. Familiar comic characters, such as Mighty Mouse and the Three Stooges, began appearing in multiple dimensions, and new characters emerged, such as Captain 3D. But the boom only lasted six months, and 3D comics virtually disappeared from newsstands until a man from Los Angeles, named Ray Zone, resurrected the medium in the 1980’s.

Zone’s line of 3D comics, The 3D Zone, was the world’s first comic line that was strictly 3D. Since 1983, he has published his own comic conversions, as well as other’s comic artwork. He has also consulted on numerous 3D projects including Tool’s 10,000 Days 3D CD, which took home the 2006 Grammy for Best Record Packaging.

The 3D Center will be projecting Zone’s 3D slide show, The Great 3D Comics Show, in the Stereo Theatre for the duration of the exhibition.

FRIENDS-ONLY PREVIEW:

Friends of the Center are invited to preview the new exhibition at a special reception on Wednesday, July 18 from 4-7pm. Not a Friend? Join today under the "Friends" button to your left.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Please join us for an opening reception with special guest, Ray Zone, on Thursday, July 19 from 6-9pm at the 3D Center.

SPECIAL EVENT:

Zone will also host a demonstration on how he creates his 3D comic conversions on Friday, July 20 from 7-8:30pm. Special event to be held at Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th in Portland. www.newspacephoto.org.

Tickets $6 advance, $8 at the door. Friends discounted tickets are $4.

For more information about the 3D Comic Special Event, please click on the "Special Event" link to your left!

Art Exhibition

Urban Spaces
by Ekkehart Rautenstrauch

"Urban Spaces" is an exhibition of 11 stereoscopic images from the series "Kunstfabrik" (2000-2007) by Ekkehart Rautenstrauch of Nantes, France.

Not far from the center of Nantes stands an old deserted foundry, out of service since the 1980s. Since 2000 Rautenstrauch has been documenting the transformation of the space by a host of taggers, graffiti artists and others wishing to leave their mark on the space. As the artist describes, "I quite steadily followed the pictural transformation, the continuous fadedness and every new expression testifying to an alive and constant creation. In my own artistic work the freedom of gesture, the rhythm of bodies, the writing extended into space, have always been essential elements."

Rautenstrauch's works are presented in specially made folding viewers called "folioscopes" (designed by Sylvain Arnoux) which hang on the wall at eye level, allowing the viewer to view the stereoscopic images.

Stereo Theatre

Magic and Murder at the Candy Factory: The Story of Anna Sula
by Christopher Schneberger

In the midst of the Depression, a teenage orphan was murdered at the Chicago factory where she worked. A clerk at the factory was charged with the crime after evidence was discovered showing he had an obsession with the girl.

Recently, other evidence has surfaced that calls that finding into question. Was there a cult meeting in the building after hours? Did the orphan, young Anna Sula, have supernatural abilities?

This new presentation by Christopher Schneberger details the story and presents never before seen evidence including photographs revealing Anna’s incredible powers, and perhaps her true identity.

More information on Christopher Schneberger can be found at his website www.christopherschneberger.com

Art Exhibition

Dust-Free Sculptures
by Rick Gibson

Ghost-like hands reach out to grab visitors. Objects defy gravity and float in space. A picture of a hole actually recedes into the wall of the art gallery. These are just some of the 3-D lenticular prints created
by Vancouver, BC artist Rick Gibson.

"Lenticular printing is a fantastic sculptural medium", says Gibson. "It's colourful, light-weight, and inexpensive. It's also flat. This makes it easy to distribute and maintain."

Visit www.rickgibson.net for more information on Gibson's work.

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Thu Nov. 1, 2007 - Sun Dec. 30, 2007

Stereo Theatre

Slow Glass
by Ray Zone and Tom Koester

Inspired by a science fiction story by Bob Shaw titled "Light of Other Days", this work incorporates stunning visual effects (vfx) to include window glass that reflects images from decades past like a clock.

Art Exhibition

StereoJets: Travels in the Third Dimension
by Simon Bell

Combining the traditional techniques of stereo photography with advanced digital printing technology, these images transcend the normal viewing experience. Large, full color, polarized prints allow the viewer to see these remarkable images in all three dimensions.

The photographs have been chosen to reflect Bell’s wide ranging interests and travel destinations.

“There are limits to what we are capable of seeing with our standard-issue eyeballs”, says Bell. “By expanding or contracting the 3rd dimension, stereography gives us a magic window into our world. We see a flower as a bee might see it. We see clouds as if we were giants.”

Stereo Theatre

Doggycam VISTA
by Takashi Sekitani

A dog's eye view of Tokyo, in 3D!













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Stereo Theatre

Cool Miami Hot 3D
by Various artists

A compilation of work by several artists created for the 2006 NSA (National Stereoscopic Association) convention by Ron Labbe.















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Art Exhibition

3D Holy Ghost Stories
by Claudia Kunin

The "3D Holy Ghost Stories" are a series of anaglyph prints which create a visual space where natural and supernatural collide.

The artist describes these works as, “a montage of photographs, all of which I have taken. These images are then knitted together, opening the door for the viewer to reconsider various traditional narratives. The composite images in the series are portals, thresholds between this world and the ‘other.’ They tell tales that bring us to the nexus of fear and faith, reuniting us with popular ideas whose threads have run through Western civilization for millenia. A new realm of the deep occult is created, allowing the viewer to experience a rich and ambiguous space.”

Works in this series include: Medusa (seen here), Ophelia, Adam & Eve, The 3 Graces, Pandora’s Box, Jacob’s Ladder, Walpurgisnacht, and others.

For more information, visit the artist's web site at claudiakunin.com

Stereo Theatre

3D Stereo Safari
by John Roll, M.D.

Dr. John Roll is a Portland-based neuro-radiologist and an accomplished stereo photographer. His many shows and images have won several awards from the National Stereoscopic Association (NSA) and have included macro underwater “sea wars,” scenic national parks, and advanced diagnostic medical imaging studies. "3D Stereo Safari" presents wonderfully composed and beautifully executed images from a trip to Africa.

Art Exhibition

CSC @ 3DC

An exhibition of large stereo prints by CSC members includes work by:

Peter Abrahams
David W. Allen
Jim Apilado
Don Birkley
Ron Kriesel
Paul Moeller
Greg Marshall
Lee Norville
Obie O’Brien
Jim Olsen
Ray Rowe
Bob Schlesinger
David Thompson
Linda Thompson
Jerry Weigel

Stereo Theatre

The Towers of Simon Rodia
by Tom Koester

This 3D film provides a tour of the famous Watts Towers while describing the story of their construction and abandonment by Simon Rodia (1879-1965) and subsequent preservation brought about by a grassroots public effort and the city of LA.

Art Exhibition

"Through the Looking Glass"
by David Kesner

An exhibition of new anaglyph prints exposing details of the natural world through masterful macro stereo photography.

Kesner explains, "Using a specialized RBT macro stereo camera I am able to capture subjects that are normally overlooked. While most people take a walk down a forest path and look up at the trees and mountain vistas, I keep my head down looking at the ground searching for that caterpillar crawling on a log. I turn over rocks, look in the crevices, and generally seek out the areas that most people avoid and I am quite often rewarded and occasionally rewarded quite well. It is some of those images that I offer you here and hope that you will feel as if you were there with me when I captured the image."

Stereo Theatre

"Sample of World Images by ISU"
by members of the International Stereoscopic Union

The ISU has traditionally assembled a traveling exhibition of stereo slides which circulates among several clubs around the world, with each club selecting ten images to represent itself. This year, a new digital touring exhibition has been organized by 11 participating clubs including those from: Australia, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, UK, Boise, Washington, DC, Detroit, Minneapolis, and the Cascade Stereoscopic Club in Portland.

Art Exhibition

"Window Shopping"
by George King

“Window Shopping” is a collection of intimate anaglyph portraits taken on the streets of towns and cities both here and abroad. The subjects are store mannequins and other silent onlookers that share our streets with their appeal for our attention. Rather than using special equipment to take his 3D images, George King takes all his photos with a typical "point and shoot" digital camera, pressing the camera against the store windows to take the two necessary images of each subject. The subjects, unsurprisingly, find it very easy to hold still between the two shots.

Stereo Theatre

Liquid Magic
by John Hart

In an effort to present dramatic visualizations of the basic principles of weather events to his atmospheric and oceanic science students, University of Colorado Professor John Hart began photographing the interactions of liquid droplets in 3D. Combining stereo and macro photography with exact lighting and timing, Hart was able to create beautiful compositions that speak equally to the scientific and artistic merits of liquid – a key player in the micro-physics of clouds. Professor Hart injected the fluids with various colors with the intention of revealing the intricate and, often times, unanticipated patterns found in nature; many of his photographs echo glass sculpture or exotic flowers.

Art Exhibition

Up From the Depths, TRIGGERED! In 3-D
by Georgette Freeman

Georgette Freeman is well-known in the national stereoscopic community as a maker and seller of contemporary stereo cards, which she has been producing since 1995. Freeman's stereo card work is distinguished by the whimsical combination of narrative text with photographic stereo imagery, and sophisticated stereo card design and production.

Freeman describes her recent life and work, "(I'm) just an everyperson, who happened to have been dealing all her life with being outwardly normal and very creative on the inside - very creative. I even questioned gender, never bought other peoples' definitions, and settled on my own. And I worked this out, in the arts. In each and every one of us, there are things just waiting to be let out. For me, one was creativity, another was gender."

An artist's reception will be held Thurs, Oct 2nd. See "Special Events."

Stereo Theatre

"Mali: Magic + Mud"
by J. Claire Dean

Mali is a quintessential West African country with a vibrant culture, incredible people and some of the largest, most spectacular earthen architecture in contemporary use. This show documents the places, people and spaces seen from Bamako to Dogon Country and back.

Art Exhibition

"Cross Views into Fractal Fantasies"
by Jerry Oldaker

These brilliantly colorful fractals are the result of many hours of computer time. Oldaker has taken the concepts recognized by Mandelbrot in the 70s to the extreme by creating stereo versions of amazingly whimsical fractals.





"I was interested in fractal art long before I discovered I could move parts of two images around to create depth in my art. I worked completely outside the stereoscopic community because I had never even heard that others were doing what I was doing with my art. I found out on the Internet that others were doing what I was doing. Then, I spent a few years re-doing other people's 2-D art, converting their artwork into cross-view 3-D stereo. Only in the last five or six years have I been building fractals into stereo art."

Stereo Theatre

"Sacred Sites"
by Dale Walsh

"This is a selection of stereoscopic imagery of sacred urban and natural environments at times juxtaposed with their profane counterparts. It is a celebration of different perspectives, cultures and people. It is also an attempt to understand and learn from the other cultures. It is a search for meaning. It is connecting to something beyond one's own individual reality."

The images date from 1986 to present and include photographs from Australia, Asia, North and South America.

Stereo Theatre

"Ennis House"
by Tom Koester

“The Ennis House” presents an in depth look at this famous and monumental Frank Lloyd Wright house of the 1920’s. Although seen in many movies, from “Grand Canyon” and “Blade Runner” to the original “House On Haunted Hill,” it has been closed to the public for over 2 decades.
Besides offering a thorough, up close and personal tour of this house in 3-D, the film deals with its origins and construction, modifications made by a Hollywood producer in the 1940’s, earthquake damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and the subsequent reconstruction and restoration. The film premiered at the 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy Conference in Chicago in both 3-D and 2-D on side-by-side screens.
Frank Lloyd Wright has been quoted as saying, “The only way to photograph architecture is in 3 dimensions…” This film, shot in Hi Def Digital 3-D, would seem to be proof of that statement.

Art Exhibition

"Avshalom Cave"
by Yitzhak Weissman

The Stalactite Cave Nature Reserve (also called Soreq Cave) is dedicated to the memory of Avshalom Shoham. The 82-meter-long, 60-meter-wide cave is on the western slopes of the Judean Hills outside the city of Beit Shemesh. It was discovered accidentally by workers blasting at a nearby quarry. Although the Soreq Cave is relatively small, the variety of its formations rivals that seen in much larger stalactite caves.
The stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the cave are up to four meters long and on occasion meet up with stalagmites growing from the floor. Stalactites range in diameter from a few millimeters to a few meters. Some look like everyday objects - shelves, sheets of cloth, branches, and coral - and others have shapes never before seen. A number of the stalactites and stalagmites are still active.

Art Exhibition

"History of the Stereo Card"
by the 3D Center

The field of stereography was born in 1838, a year before the discovery of photography. The first simple geometric drawings were soon replaced by photographs and the need to be able to view them stereoscopically led to the development and improvement of viewing devices, most notably by Brewster in England and later by Holmes in the US whose stereoscope became the de facto design for stereoscopic viewers for many years to come.

By the 1860s there were over 100,000 different views available and the publishing of stereo cards became a major business with significant competition. Within a few years there were more than a million cards available, a number which eventually surpassed 5 million individual titles.

The stereo card quickly became an important social phenomenon with views from every corner of the world available to be enjoyed by ordinary individuals and by fashionable groups in drawing rooms and salons.

While it is not even conceivable to imagine a true representation of the countless topics and titles of all the stereo cards available today, this modest exhibition is showing an almost random sample of a few interesting images that became available to its organizers.

The exhibition includes large anaglyph photographic prints scanned from stereo cards by Shab Levy.

Stereo Theatre

"Unseen Ellis Island"
by Sheldon Aronowitz & Gary Schacker

Extended through May 3rd by popular demand!

The fascinating and sometimes disturbing history of Ellis Island has become well-known in the past few decades. From 1900 to 1954, the main US immigration processing center was the point of entry for more than 12 million new Americans; mostly poor, nervous, and suffering the consequences of an arduous sea voyage in deplorable conditions. Unknown to most is that the activities of Ellis Island were documented in 3D and printed as a collection of stereocards.
“Unseen Ellis Island” combines these rare images with a new series of 3D photographs by Sheldon Aronowitz and Gary Schacker who, after years of red tape, were allowed access to Islands 2 & 3 which have never been restored (public visitors to Ellis Island today see the grandly renovated Island 1).
Originally presented as a stereo slide show, many hours of work by 3D Center Board members now allows “Unseen Ellis Island” to be viewed as a 15 minute digital presentation with music.

Stereo Theatre

The City Quakes: The San Francisco Earthquakes of 1906 & 1989
by Robert Bloomberg

The San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was the worst national disaster in American history and the first to spark a world-wide media frenzy. Stereo card companies produced scores of 3D cards which brought the devastation into living rooms around the globe.
This show includes photos never before seen in 3D, as well as dramatic images of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Art Exhibition

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose in 3D!
by Abe Fagenson

The 3D Center is excited to be presenting the work of Abe Fagenson for the first time in Portland. Abe’s cross-view stereo paintings were featured in the gallery exhibition at the 2008 NSA convention in Grand Rapids, MI and an interview by Ray Zone appeared in the November/December 2008 issue of Stereo World. Here are excerpts from that interview:

“After the war, I applied to the Art Institute of Chicago and got in. I took some courses in drawing. I still remember the first day in drawing, I was back to that one eye. Stereo was something I thought about and I couldn’t dismiss it. But it wasn’t what other people were doing….
In the early fifties, we moved to the San Fernando Valley and started raising a family. Montgomery Ward had a big sale on 3D cameras. It was the Stereo Realist. I was just beginning to see 3D in movies. ‘Wow!’ I said. ‘This is real. It’s fantastic!’ I had to get the camera. I tried it. It was fantastic and from that moment on everything had to be stereo for me….
As time went by, I remember being in an airplane. It was in the early 1990s, I was looking at a magazine and saw this random dot stereogram and it turned out to be an airplane. I stared at it a while and it came to me and I saw it. I almost jumped out of the seat. You could almost touch it. I said ‘I’ve got to learn how to do this.’ I started buying books on the random dot technique, anaglyphic images, anything I could find. So I started with anaglyphic drawings. If you separate them and use a cross-eyed technique you’ve got stereo. I started with little sketches and sure enough, they were 3D.”

Included in the exhibition will be some of Abe’s new rose series paintings. Portland, the Rose City, has hosted an annual Rose Festival for over 100 years, so it is highly appropriate that the 3D Center is able to feature these new works in the spring to coincide with the Festival. More information about Abe’s work can be found at: http://wwwabefagenson.com.

Stereo Theatre

Macro Stereo Fotographia
by Imre Zsolnai-Nagy

“Macro Stereo Fotographia” presents close-up 3D views of the natural world in a digital theatre presentation by stereographer Imre Zsolnai-Nagy of Debrecen, Hungary.
Shooting extreme close-ups in 3D combines art and exacting calculations. The 2 images (left and right) that make up the stereo photo are taken either with a single macro camera with 2 lenses very close together or, if using a single camera, the shift of the camera between the left and right image may be a fraction of an inch. A urologist by profession, Zsolnai-Nagy is very much involved in the technical aspects of creating 3D images. He has developed his own method for de-ghosting anaglyph images (trying to avoid blurred double images) and does a lot of work in 2D to 3D conversion. More information and other images of his work can be found at:
http://www.freeweb.hu/conversion3d/

Art Exhibition

A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy
by the 3D Center

The 3D Center has been offered an unprecedented opportunity to print and exhibit images from “A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy,” a groundbreaking project developed by Portlander William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master, in collaboration with Dr. David Bassett.

Originally published in Portland in the 1950’s and 60’s, the series included View-Master reels with booklets of accompaying text and drawings. Working together on weekends over a period of 14 years, Bassett made the dissections from cadavers and Gruber shot the stereo photographs. A total of 1551 images of the body were produced, head to toe, and the reel sets were released for purchase by the public as they were completed.

Slides and digital scans have been generously donated to the 3D Center by Dr. Robert Chase, curator of the collection, which was given to the Stanford School of Medicine by Bassett’s widow. The Atlas is still used by medical students today because of the quality of the dissections and the brilliance of the stereo photographs.

The 3D Center is producing large stereo pair prints for exhibition in the Gallery, and a digital show for the Stereo Theatre will open August 6th. These images have never before been presented in these formats in 3D!

Warning: these are graphic images of actual human bodies and may not be appropriate for children or those of a sensitive nature.

Special thanks to the Autzen Foundation (Portland) for support of this project.

Stereo Theatre

A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy
by the 3D Center

In conjunction with the Gallery exhibition (presented in July and August), the 3D Center has produced a 15 minute digital show for projection in the Stereo Theatre. The show includes historical imagery of Dr. David Bassett and William Gruber working on the project as well as approximately 100 images from “A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy.”

Art Exhibition

Students of the 3D Center
by various artists

The 3D Center of Art & Photography has offered classes and workshops to the public since opening over five years ago, most of them taught by Shab Levy. More than 130 students have participated in learning various aspects of stereography, making anaglyphs, phantograms, stereo cards, View-Master reels, lenticulars and work in other 3D formats. Former students have been invited to submit artwork in various formats for this exhibition which will feature work by 6 artists.

Stereo Theatre

"Master William and the Governess" & "Ghost Car"
by Christopher Schneberger and John Hart

A 3D DOUBLE FEATURE

"Master William and the Governess" is the latest work by Chicago-based artist Christopher Schneberger whose other presentations at the 3D Center have been thoroughly enjoyed.

"William Clarke was born to wealthy parents in 1887, but he was primarily raised by the family’s governess, Sophia Ashton. Tragically, Sophia died suddenly when William was only thirteen. The legend holds that as Master William became a young man, he was visited on numerous occasions by the spirit of his governess who continued his education."




"Ghost Car" was made by John Hart with the support of the Stereo Club of Southern California's very active 3D film division. "Ghost Car is based on a true incident that happened to a terrified hitch-hiker one cold and rainy night. The rider shares his ordeal with a sympathetic bartender, only to learn a simple truth."

Art Exhibition

3D Doodle Daze
by 3D Center visitors

The 3D Center of Art & Photography has offered several public workshops in 3D dddoolding that have been so successful that we’ve decided to give the gallery over to dddoodlers for an entire exhibition slot.

Visitors will be able to grab a pair of red and blue pencils and try out making their own 3D anaglyph images by dddoodling on large strips of paper. The best doodles will then be posted on the walls.

Subsequent visitors will get to see the handiwork of previous dddoodlers and the top rated dddoodles will be printed in the January 2010 issue of Center News.

Stereo Theatre

"Moving Still," "Skydiving," "Elevation" & "Fireworks"
by Santiago Caicedo, Eric Deren, Eric Kurland, Takashi Sekitani

A PROGRAM OF FOUR SHORTS

“Moving Still” uses stunning animation to turn an everyday train ride into an apocalyptic vision.





“Skydiving” puts the viewer right into the action with a head-mounted 3D video camera. It captures group dive maneuvers that induce breathlessness.





“Elevation” tells a serio-comic tale of a woman trapped in an elevator with a clown.






“Fireworks” presents the brilliance of a Japanese fireworks display with outstanding 3D night videography.