LA shows 1/11/25

Dear Los Angeles area friends, 

Please join us for an amazing visit to mid-century America through the largely-forgotten technology enthusiasts call

the “Virtual Reality of the 1950s.” Introduced in 1947, the Stereo Realist camera system brought full color 3-D

photography of astonishing realism to the masses. The technology peaked in the mid-50s and slowly disappeared.

Eric Drysdale has been collecting these amazing images for over 25 years. A selection of these were featured in LACMA’s 2018 survey exhibit on 3D imaging. In this intimate 2-hour “stereo salon,” you’ll see the very best of them in high-quality fully-restored vintage viewers– the way they were meant to be seen.You’ll be brought back to midcentury America with startling presence and vividness. You’ll see every aspect of life: work and play; home and travel; city, suburb and country. It’s the closest to time travel you’re likely to experience.

Eric makes sure you always have something fascinating to look at and answers your questions.

Each guest gets their own high-quality vintage stereo viewer for the event.

 

Saturday Jan. 11th 2025 – Two shows. 12:30 and 6:30 seatings, prompt start times 1:00 and 7:00 pm.
$25 payable by cash or Venmo at the event.
At the Culver City home of David Starkman and Susan Pinsky AKA “Reel 3-D enterprises,” packed to the rafters with their incredible collection of 3-D equipment, media and memorabilia.
RSVP at your earliest convenience (for yourself and one guest if you’d like) at edrys@mac.com and I’ll send you the info. Be sure to say which show you want to attend – 12:30 or 6:30
Read the articles about Midcentury Stereopanorama at 
The New York Times And Atlas Obscura.

Learn more at www.midcenturystereopanorama.com 

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“As you click away on your very own battery-powered, plastic time machine, you will have the rare opportunity to gaze upon hundreds of haunting and hilarious, poignant and puzzling, bleak and beautiful images. Beyond the trippy novelty of 3-D lies the heart of the event—a tour de force of curatorial passion and panache that rivals any top-shelf gallery show. If you are a lover of photography, you are in for a truly one-of-a-kind viewing experience impossible to anticipate.”
—Matt Mahurin, photographer, illustrator and filmmaker (I Like Killing Flies)


“Eric plays the perfect tour guide, neither telling you what to think nor leaving you without context, as you stare into the dreams and lives of a world long past. It’s how photographic history was meant to be experienced.”
— Jason Scott, Archivist, Internet Archive/Wayback Machine
“You’d be hard pressed to find someone more quietly excited to show you a 3-D scene from a 1950s bar mitzvah.”
— Cara Giamo, Atlas Obscura