thecharioteer
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One of the biggest rages of the Victorian Age was to view photography stereoscopically. What is a stereoscope?
A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that makes the image seen through it appear larger and more distant and usually also shifts its apparent horizontal position, so that for a person with normal binocular depth perception the edges of the two images seemingly fuse into one "stereo window". In current practice, the images are prepared so that the scene appears to be beyond this virtual window, through which objects are sometimes allowed to protrude, but this was not always the custom. A divider or other view-limiting feature is usually provided to prevent each eye from being distracted by also seeing the image intended for the other eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope
The fascination of replicated images goes beyond the technology of this invention and, in a sense, is the basis of much of Warhol's work and could even be extended to the beauty of sheets of postage stamps (which today seems almost as ancient as stereoscopic images!). This thread is aimed at appreciating these images in their own right.
The following stereoscopic images are all from the Toronto Public Library collection.
The stereoscope invented by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1861:
Early Toronto images:
1859, The Bank of Upper Canada:
1859, Osgoode Hall:
1859, University College:
1859, Mechanic's Institute, Church and Adelaide:
1859, Cooke's Church, Queen and Mutual:
1861, St. James Cathedral:
1861, University College:
1870, Yonge & King:
1875, Toronto Street:
St. Joseph's Convent, Wellesley Avenue West at Surrey Place:
Gerrard and Jarvis:
Normal School:
Yonge at Temperance:
More to follow......
A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that makes the image seen through it appear larger and more distant and usually also shifts its apparent horizontal position, so that for a person with normal binocular depth perception the edges of the two images seemingly fuse into one "stereo window". In current practice, the images are prepared so that the scene appears to be beyond this virtual window, through which objects are sometimes allowed to protrude, but this was not always the custom. A divider or other view-limiting feature is usually provided to prevent each eye from being distracted by also seeing the image intended for the other eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope
The fascination of replicated images goes beyond the technology of this invention and, in a sense, is the basis of much of Warhol's work and could even be extended to the beauty of sheets of postage stamps (which today seems almost as ancient as stereoscopic images!). This thread is aimed at appreciating these images in their own right.
The following stereoscopic images are all from the Toronto Public Library collection.
The stereoscope invented by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1861:
Early Toronto images:
1859, The Bank of Upper Canada:
1859, Osgoode Hall:
1859, University College:
1859, Mechanic's Institute, Church and Adelaide:
1859, Cooke's Church, Queen and Mutual:
1861, St. James Cathedral:
1861, University College:
1870, Yonge & King:
1875, Toronto Street:
St. Joseph's Convent, Wellesley Avenue West at Surrey Place:
Gerrard and Jarvis:
Normal School:
Yonge at Temperance:
More to follow......
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