A research paper published this week by Kim Bell and Robin Canham, from Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, has revealed that some 19th century coloured stereocard mounts contain toxic heavy metals.
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RPS Historical Group Research Day 2020 Event
The Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group are holding their annual Research Day online via Zoom this year on Saturday 14th November 2020 and anyone can attend. The day will present a series of papers of research in progress from photo-historians, students and others, including Keynote speaker Denis Pellerin presenting 'Why Collect Stereo Photographs?' in 3-D.
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.
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