10 Facts About Karl Struss

Karl Struss was one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films.

Karl Struss began to develop an interest in photography, experimenting with an 8x10 camera, and beginning in 1908, attended Clarence H White's evening art photography course at Teachers College at Columbia University, concluding his studies in 1912.

Karl Struss's reputation was solidified by his inclusion in the exhibition "What the Camera Does in the Hand of the Artist" at the Newark Art Museum, held in April 1911, and an invitation by the Teacher's College for Karl Struss to organize a one-person exhibition of his views of New York City as well as to teach White's course in the summer of 1912 while White was away.

Karl Struss was invited by Stieglitz to join the Photo-Secession in 1912, which led to the publication of Karl Struss's photographs in the group's magazine Camera Work.

At the suggestion of Coburn, Karl Struss submitted prints to the American Invitational Section of the annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in London, initiating an exhibiting practice he would continue into the 1920s.

Karl Struss participated in numerous exhibitions organized by photography clubs and other associations, including the Pittsburgh Salon of National Photographic Art and the annual photography display organized by the Philadelphia department store Wanamaker's.

Karl Struss trained to teach aerial photography, but an investigation into Struss's German affiliations launched by the Military Intelligence Department led to his demotion from the rank of sergeant to private; after a period in confinement in Ithaca, New York, where he had originally gone to teach in the new School of Military Aeronautics, he was transferred to Fort Leavenworth to serve as a prison guard and then as a file clerk.