part of the jonathan ross collection
Stereoviews
Nudes
Stereo Realist Nudes
Stereoview by Harold Lloyd
The silent film star Harold Lloyd was a devotee and even wrote the introduction to the 1954 Stereo Realist Handbook.
This section contains a number of Lloyd’s stereoviews from the 1950s along with other examples of nude photography from that era.
These images are from a totally different era to the rest of my collection, and some definitely qualify as kitsch, but the Great American Pin-up is very much a feature of its time and a subject I have enjoyed collecting.
Vistascreen
Miss Continentale
Most of the views were produced as tourist souvenirs or for armchair travellers to purchase mail order, but they also supplied sets of ‘Art Studies’ , ‘Glamour Models’ and ‘Miss Continentale’, for ‘Connoisseurs’.
Multiple-Exposure
Charles Swedlund
Jules Richard
Stereoviews replicate the way we see the world by taking two views of a scene, one from the right eye position and another from the left. When these are mounted together and viewed in a stereoscope, the brain merges them into a 3-dimensional or ‘stereoscopic’ image.
The technique emerged in the 1850s, soon after the invention of photography, through the work of Charles Wheatstone and Sir David Brewster, and developed into a worldwide craze with thousands of practitioners.
Stereo photography has gone out of fashion several times over the past couple of centuries, only to be rediscovered by later generations. Most of the images on this site are by European photographers working in the 1850s and 60s.
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