Gary Schacker
List of honorees
Louis Rose Society
Jewishsightseeing home
Writings about Gary Schacker
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Events Association (BESA), webpage on
photographer Gary Schacker: http://www.besasandiego.com/schacker_photo/schacker_photo.htm
-2003-
January 10,
2003—Audrey Jacobs, "Planning a bar/bat
mitzvah: a survival guide for parents," San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage,
pages 1, 6-8
-2005-
December 30, 2005—Steve
Berezin, news release on "Unseen Ellis Island": Below
is information on an exciting 3D show that will be shown along
with a show on California sites on Friday, January 13, 2006.
It will be presented at the Saddleback Room at City Hall (200 Civic
Center) the corner of La Paz and Margarite in Mission Viejo California at
6:30PM.
Please contact Steve
Berezin for seat reservations (949) 215 1554
(it
is free).
An Evening of Stereo
Photography "Unseen Ellis Island"
Millions of
immigrants poured into Ellis Island in the first half of
the 20th century. Viewers will slip on a pair of 3-D glasses and observe
compelling vintage photographic images depicting the immigrant's journey to a
new life and stunning modern views of the facility in its present state. Also
see colorful award winning stereo scenic and travel images by photographer Gary
Schacker. Mr. Schacker is a native of New York City and a resident of San
Diego since 1979.
(200 Civic Center)
the corner of La Paz and Margarite in Mission Viejo
California..
Course #: 859 Date:
Friday, January 13, 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Fee: Free
Each month the
Cultural Arts Committee hosts a program at the Mission
Viejo City Hall (200 Civic Center), which includes various art forms
such as musical performances, visual art displays, vocal groups, and dance
performances. Seat reservations are
recommended by calling (949)
470-3061 or (949) 470-8440. Seating
will begin 30 minutes prior to the
performance for everyone with reservations.
Open seating will begin 10
minutes prior to the performance on a first-come first serve basis.
Here is an article
about the show that appeared in the Portland Oregonian:
3-D photo show
reveals hidden side of immigrants' Ellis Island;
JOE FITZGIBBON;
Millions of immigrants poured into Ellis Island in the first half of
the 20th century. They wore weary faces and lugged heavy suitcases but
were hopeful with the promise of a new life. Some of Ellis Island has
been closed to the public for 50 years, but now it's possible to step back in
history in this exciting 3D show. The award winning, 30-minute program,
developed by San Diego photographer Gary Schacker and New Jersey collector and
photographer Sheldon Aronowitz, combines vintage images of Ellis Island with
contemporary photographs of many of the historic buildings.
"It all had that look of being abandoned quickly," Schacker says of
Ellis Island's buildings. He and Aronowitz spent five days outfitted with face
masks and hard hats photographing the infirmaries, dormitories, administrative
offices and examining rooms on the island. "We didn't touch anything but
simply tried to convey the mood and the deterioration we saw," Schacker
says.
The compelling images include long corridors leading into paint-chipped
rooms with broken furniture, including one with a collapsed piano and
another with stacks of bedding. In one building, light streams through
splintered windows, showing off plants that have taken root in piles of
debris. In another, unclaimed steamer trunks are stacked to the
ceiling, while rusted file cabinets spill out onto floors. The 3-D photographs
of weather-scarred operating rooms and moss-filled sinks are a reminder of the
diseases many new arrivals brought and the births and deaths that happened
there.
"The show won
the equivalent of our Academy Awards says Shab Levy, an avid photographer and
member of the National Stereoscopic Association, which promotes 3-D photography.
The association gave the program its 2004 top prize. "You can't help being
moved emotionally by its harsh beauty."
In 1990, after renovation costs of more than $60 million, the Ellis
Island Immigration Museum opened to the public. Each year, nearly 2
million visitors stroll through the main processing center. However, no one is
allowed in any of the neighboring 29 buildings. Schacker says he
hopes that in a small way the show by he and Aronowitz will galvanize support
for restoring those structures.
"It's hard not to think of the anxiety the immigrants confined to these
buildings must have felt," he says. "We jumped at the chance to look
inside, and I'm sure that lots of other people would do the same." Course
#: 859
Date: Friday, January
13, 2006; Time: 6:30
p.m.
Fee: Free. More
information: steve@berezin.com