P3D NYSS meeting tonight June 18

[Greg Dinkins <dinkins@xxxxxxxx>]

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The New York Stereoscopic Society
Summer 1999 Meeting: Friday, June 18, 7:30 PM
The American Museum of Natural History - Linder Theater 
Use the 77th St. entrance. Bear left past the big canoe and then right,
through to the end of the hall of molluscs.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the 3rd Dimension 

Frank Lloyd Wright wrote that "the only photograph that can be made of
architecture is three-dimensional." Wright saw that stereoscopic 
photography conveys spatial and textural information absent in 
ordinary, flat photography. Michael Kaplan surveys the history, 
theory and practice of stereographic representation of architecture. 
The advantages and potential of stereo photography in architectural 
study is illustrated with full-color, three-dimensional slides of 
buildings from ancient Greece to Fallingwater, and recounts Wright’s 
own passionate interest in this compelling medium.

Michael Kaplan is Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at the 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he taught architectural 
design and theory. Winner of the AIA Education Honors Award in 1991, 
he is a licensed architect and has lectured and published widely on 
cultural aspects of architecture. His stereoscopic lectures have been 
presented at the National Building Museum, Columbia University, and 
many other prominent architecture schools. As founding partner in 
View*Productions, Mr. Kaplan has embarked on a project to publish 
examples of 20th-century architecture in 3-D on View-Master reels.

The evening meeting will include some announcements, and our usual 
informal show-and-tell when members share their own work 
(in any format) in viewers or on bulletin boards around the room.  

Free and open to the public

Greg Dinkins
AMNH Micro Press


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