{Culture} Eye to Eye. Histories of Stereo Photography. Today the three-dimensional image is a part of everyday life: we visit 3-D cinemas, buy magazines with 3-D illustrations and use such methods for printing and web design, regarding stereo pictures as a more or less modern technological achievement. However, its history covers almost two centuries, and the effect of the three-dimensional picture has enchanted viewers since the 1830s. The ‘Eye To Eye’ exhibition devised by the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow with the participation of the Polytechnical Museum presents various episodes from the story of stereo photography, inviting the modern viewer to independently recreate the order of events and see that one of the most popular leisure activities of the 19th century can also be an object of interest to the sophisticated audience. Despite changes in technologies, the basic principal for creating a three-dimensional photograph remains unchanged: two shots of the same subject must be taken (corresponding to the vision of the left and right eye), which then fuse into one stereo picture when viewed together. Viewing methods have changed more radically: screens and special glasses now facilitate collective viewing, while viewers peering into a stereoscope were left one-to-one with the image. The stereoscopic image, initially far removed from aesthetic pretensions, has been appropriated as a mode of art and thereby acquired new importance. Where: st. Ostozhenka 16 For more information: mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/stereomates/ travel2moscow
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:33:03 +0000
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