After a career of thirty three years in the psychology faculty at Orange County Community College, Stuart Stiles retired in 1999. He is using part of his time to participate in the regional, national and international stereoscopic community.
Stuart has written a storybook where some stereoscopic images are presented in the context of illustrations for a tale that includes Seneca Ray Stoddard as a character in the history of Wilton, NY and the mountains to the north.
Publication will be early in 2012.
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While at the College, he organized class related projects for students that acquainted them with stereo photography, techniques for viewing 3D images and depth perception as they prepared for public exhibits of their projects. Exhibits were often accompanied by visits from highly respected stereographers and stereo specialists such as William Duggan, Simon Bell, Jon Golden, Marc Grossman, Greg Dinkins, and Sheldon Aronowitz.
After retiring from the college, Stuart established Stiles Studio. In part of his work with the stereo photography studio, he led workshops for children in the SMArt Links and Interactive Museum in Middletown. He led summer workshops for children at the historic Huguenot Street museum in New Paltz. Children were taught how to make their own stereo cameras, take stereo photos, and mount those photos for viewing in 3D.
For another age group at the college, he taught ENCORE courses on stereoviewing. The courses ranged from Victorian stereo viewing to the big screen IMAX movies.
Stereo photographs taken by Stuart Stiles at the Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa, New York :
He provided Victorian Day exhibits of stereoscopes at the Saratoga County Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa, NY.
Stuart published Stereoscopic Saratoga Springs: approaching and entering the twentieth century, a collection featuring sixty two antique stereoviews of Victorian Saratoga Springs, NY.
He designed this folding stereo viewer to be used with books that contain parallel stereoviews.
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Converting the old Saratoga stereo cards into slides for projection, he made an expanded version of the book's coverage into slide shows presented at the National Stereoscopic Association, the New York Stereoscopic Society and the 2001 Display Expo convention in Saratoga Springs.
Working with the late Guenther Bauer and his wife Lois, Stuart published a set of Adirondack stereo views made in the 1870s by Seneca Ray Stoddard. That publication led to a set of Seneca Ray Stoddard's stereo photography as projection slides that has been shown at stereo organizations and as part of the Lake Placid North Elba Historical Society’s public presentations.
Stuart is an occasional contributor of articles to STEREO WORLD magazine, a publication of the National Stereoscopic Association.
He installed a Lyceum cultural program exhibit “Stereoscopic 3D: Photography with the depth of normal vision” in the Orange Hall Gallery at Orange County Community College. The exhibit closed on September 25, 2009, it is now available for other venues. To arrange for a scheduling of the exhibit, click on this text.
A visitor at the Lyceum exhibit views some of the stereo photos of Niagara Falls, NY made by local photographers during the Victorian era.