Background
Stoumen was born in Springtown, Pennsylvania, and died in Sebastopol, California.
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Stoumen was born in Springtown, Pennsylvania, and died in Sebastopol, California.
After graduating from Lehigh University in 1939, he worked as a freelance journalist and photographer in New New York Many of the photographs of Times Square he made were published in the 1985 book Times Square: 45 Years of Photographs. Stoumen taught at University of California, Los Angeles Film School.
He spoke of his innovation in The True Story of the Civil War.
He invented a track for the camera to move back and forth over historic photos and paintings. lieutenant also tracked up and down (in and out).
The technique is often referred to today as the "Ken Burns effect". Stoumen received Colin Higgins" master"s thesis, a screenplay called Harold and Maude.
Stoumen spoke of his enjoyment of the writing, but doubted it would ever be produced.
He wasn"t unhappy when proven wrong by the film"s success. Stouman married Lini De Vries in 1943. The couple divorced in 1949.
After his death in 1991, the Stoumen Estate gifted the entire archive of Stoumen"s work, including copyright, to the Museum of Photographic Arts.
MOPA created a special exhibition and catalog entitled Seduced by Life: The Art of Lou Stoumen in celebration of acquiring the Stoumen Archive. Copyright for Stoumen"s work is currently administered by the Museum of Photographic Arts.