P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2398 Re: P3D The Value of Photography

[Mary Ann & Wolfgang Sell <vmmasell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> George wrote:
> >I'll make sure I specify in my will that my personal slides are sold.  I
> >will let my children and immediate family take what they like but
> >definitely treat the rest as an asset to be sold.  Possibly auctioned in
> >small lots.

Please consider donating your images to a museum. 

We are donating our ENTIRE VIEW-MASTER/STEREO COLLECTION to a museum and
this is desingated so in our will.  We want to preseve stereo history
for the masses not just for the select few that have some $$$ and want
to spend it on 3-D.

In a museum collection, thousands of people can enjoy the images that it
took your time and effort to create.  They will not just be looked at
once or twice then put away in a closet.

I have litterally thousands of VM Personal reels and I spend countless
hours looking at them.  They are all logged individually -- separated by
the photographers from whom I purchased them (if known) and each remains
cataloged as done by the original photographer.  Some of these pictures
are bad and others are worse but some are the best 3D images I've ever
seen.  None are taken lightly or overlooked because of photographic
defects because each represents a moment in time during the history of
our planet that can never be repeated.  

We also have thousands of 5-perf and 7-perf images as well, many that
were taken by William Gruber -- inventor of the VM system.  Most of
these are fantastic shots although many are damaged due to poor storage.
We are currently cleaning, achiving, and preserving these for future
generations.  

Another group of several thousands of William Gruber pictures has been
donated to the Holmes Library.  The library will do the same kind of
work I am doing to save these images for the future.

Please reconsider having your family "auction off" your work and think
about donating it to a worthly instution ... perhaps somewhere in the
Cleveland area where much of your work was done.

Mary Ann Sell
Vice President
National Stereoscopic Association


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