His photographic passions were ignited in undergraduate school when he began shooting fine art portraiture and rock band publicity pix with a Nikkormat FTN SLR and a single 50mm lens, while also working as a progressive rock FM radio DJ in Ithaca, New York and the Hartford, Ct. area for over five years.

From 1980-2000 Perlstein divided time between shooting on-set and special motion picture, television, and music video stills photography along with music magazine assignments. Credits include over 120 feature films, as many television series and sitcoms, and scores of music videos. Photographs from said assignments were published worldwide on movie posters, home video box covers, and as editorial and advertising content for magazine, newspaper, and trade publications, including Premiere, Time, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, and SPIN.

Music acts photographed include The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Los Lobos, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Taj Mahal, The Grateful Dead, REM, Stephane Grappelli, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Junior Brown, and many more. Film personalities he has worked with include George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Alicia Silverstone, James Earl Jones, Sharon Stone, Sid Caesar, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lara Flynn Boyle, Christopher Walken, Salma Hayek, Martin Landau, John Lithgow, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Lange, along with directors, Andre de Toth, Joe Dante, Tony Richardson, Ralph Bakshi, and more.

Perlstein adopted stereo photography as his principle fine art expression immediately following his first Stereo Club of Southern California meeting in 1991. Over the past 18-years, Perlstein has logged in approximately 400 awards for excellence in stereo photography in regional, national, and international competition exhibitions. Additionally, he has produced and presented scores of theatrically projected stereoscopic 3-D slide programs with narration and environmental sound effects, some featuring original music scores performed live. In 1997, he designed the lighting and photographed the main elements for the glasses-free autostereoscopic 3-D lenticular movie poster prototype for Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park: The Lost World."

Perlstein relocated to the California Central Coast in 2000 to focus on 3-D imaging full time. In 2003, Perlstein founded the Morro Bay National Estuary Stereo Photo Survey, the world's first long-term (15-month) photographic documentary overview of an ecosystem’s habitats and life forms exclusively using state-of-the-art stereoscopic photography techniques. Highlights from the survey are showcased in Discover the Estuary in 3-D, an environmental public outreach and education exhibit on display inside the Morro Bay Estuary Nature Center situated along the waterfront in Morro Bay, California. This permanent exhibit is designed to inspire and motivate visitors of all ages to consider a more proactive role in the conservation, preservation, and stewardship of our last remaining healthy estuary environments.

Additionally, Perlstein produced and presented Meet the Flockers, stop-action you-are-there perspectives on the birds and habitats in and around the Morro Bay estuary to help people better understand the need for maintaining the vitality of our last remaining healthy estuaries. This 30-minute narrated projected cinema-styled stereoscopic slide program has toured extensively and received critical acclaim by groups all over Central Coastal and Southern California and as far away as Connecticut.

Perlstein also works as a freelance Director of Photography and Camera Operator on various television and short film productions, including directing and co-producing a work in progress, a feature length documentary on the life and work of legendary American folk photographer, Joe Schwartz.

Recent accomplishments include having founded and produced the 3-D Indie Film Expo www.3DIFExpo.com, the world’s first truly independent short 3-D film festival which premiered November, 2008 during the Paso Robles Digital Film Festival www.pasoroblesfilmfestival.com. In January 2008, twenty of Perlstein’s stereo photos were licensed by NVIDIA for use in a video campaign promoting their new GeForce 3-D Vision gaming platform.

Perlstein is in the midst of developing 3-D stereo media fine art, advertising, promotional, educational, instructional, and entertainment applications for print, web, display, and theatrical markets while actively building a multi-thousand image bank of 3-D photographic landscapes, wildlife, architectural studies, and figurative portraiture. "Careening Through The Third Dimension (Click, Cha-Cha, Click)," Perlstein's debut all-digital slide program will be featured at the 2009 National Stereoscopic Association Convention.

[ Abe Perlstein’s 3-D photography work may be seen online at:

www.abes3dworld.blogspot.com
Abe’s ongoing blog complete with two 3-D stereoscopic photo viewing options. You may view red-and-cyan-tinted anaglyphs with red/cyan anaglyph 3-D glasses…or you may view the cross/convergence-viewing stereo pairs without glasses. See instructions on website on how to view with the naked eye.

www.realestateshows.com/67214
An experimental site dedicated to extolling the benefits of 3-D photography for environmental public outreach and education. View with red/cyan anaglyph 3-D glasses. Turn up your sound.

www.realestateshows.com/58779
An experimental site dedicated to extolling the benefits of 3-D photography for real estate promotions and sales. View with red/cyan anaglyph glasses. Turn up your sound.

Contact Abe Perlstein at:
ap3dguy@hotmail.com
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