Los Angeles 3-D Club (SCSC)
A memorial rite for Chris Condon will be recited at 9:45 a.m. this Sunday (January 30) at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox church. There will be a 40-day memorial service for Chris Condon and a traditional ‘Kolava’ memorial will be served with coffee in the community center complex. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox church 9501 Balboa Blvd. (corner of… [Continue Reading]
Photography, motion pictures and stereography evolved simultaneously and many devices of optical wonder were created that conferred movement, depth and color on images with both simple and complex means. Even prior to the invention of photography the peep show and magic lantern were popular optical entertainments in which various showmen ingeniously incorporated depth and movement…. [Continue Reading]
One of the most noteworthy members the Stereo Division of the Photographic Society of America (PSA) and the Stereo Club of Southern California (SCSC) has ever had is Karl Struss. Most famous as the first cameraman (along with Charles Rosher) to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the 1927 film Sunrise, directed by… [Continue Reading]
It’s been a tough year for stereography. Within the past year we’ve lost several important long-time stereographers. Charles Piper, author of the “The Technical Page” for the 3D News of the Stereo Club of Southern California (SCSC), left us late in 2001. George Skelley, veteran stereo photographer and maker of stereo mounts as well as… [Continue Reading]