Stereograph
ステレオ写真 / 1850s–1930s / Style / Photography and Publishing
The 19th century's biggest picture medium: paired photographs viewed in stereo. Mass-produced cards brought world travel into the parlor — the immersion device before VR.
Twin paired images / Curved card mounts / Descriptions on the back / Series collecting
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Holmes viewer / Underwood & Underwood's world tours / the return in VR