Photo Historian Denis Pellerin rediscovers a Victorian stereo-photographer from Manchester and writes about the information he's unearthed whilst researching him and his family.
Category: History and Research
Faces from the Past
The Stereoscopy Blog is excited to bring you our first of many posts by photo historian, life-long stereoscopy enthusiast and Director of Dr. Brian May's London Stereoscopic Company, Denis Pellerin. In this post he describes his most recent purchase of a stereoview of two sisters, his research into it and the story about them. It gives an insight into how he thoroughly researches each image for his excellent talks, articles and books.
Roger Fenton’s 1850’s British Museum Stereoscopic (3-D) Photographs
The British Museum announced yesterday that it will finally be reopening on the 27th August 2020 after its longest peacetime closure since opening its doors in 1759 (pre-booking is necessary to visit, please see the BM's website for details). To celebrate I thought I'd write a post about the stereographs of the British Museum taken by Roger Fenton in the 1850s.
Happy Caturday: Cats in (Stereoscopic) 3-D
For a crazy cat person every single day is Caturday so let's celebrate our feline friends in stereoscopic 3-D!
Through the Eyes of Amateurs: 1960s York in 3-D, Part 2
Here are a few more stereoviews from the box of about 30 1960s UK stereo-camera slides which I've scanned, digitally cleaned and digitally remounted.
Through the Eyes of Amateurs: 1960s York in 3-D, Part 1
These 1960s stereoviews are from a box of about 30 stereo realist slides which someone didn't know what to do with (when you're a stereoscopy nut with quite a niche interest these things have a habit of finding their way to you!). We're going to explore them!
1910s Stereoscopic (3-D) Wedding Party
These stereoviews were in a set of 15 which were originally made in France in the 1910s. The mounts show they were taken by a photographer with a studio in Paris and the clothing style shows French military uniforms as well as French fashion typical of the era. We're going to examine them and see what information we can find.
Autochrome Stereoscopic (3-D) Photographs
I wanted to share some amateur autochrome stereoviews from my collection so anyone unfamiliar with the process can see how beautiful they are.
How to View Stereoscopic 3-D Images: Free-Viewing and Using Stereoscopes
There are different ways to view images in a stereopair and they all rely on each image being viewed separately by the corresponding eye so your brain can fuse the two 2-D images into one 3-D image.
What is Stereoscopy?
Well, it'd be a bit naughty to start a blog about stereoscopy and not say what it is! In a nutshell: Stereoscopy uses the illusion of depth to create a single 3-D image from two flat images when viewed by each eye separately.
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