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The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced. The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture.
Oct 4, 2019 · The stereoscope and stereoscopic photographs. : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
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In 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes created and deliberately did not patent a handheld, streamlined, much more economical viewer than had been available before. The stereoscope, which dates from the 1850s, consisted of two prismatic lenses and a wooden stand to hold the stereo card.
Oct 28, 2013 · Oliver Wendell Holmes and David Brewster both described stereoscopy in terms of its sculptural quality as a way of emphasising the haptic quality of viewing stereoscopic photographs. The phenomenal realism of the device augmented the indexical realism of photography.
- John Plunkett
- 2013
“The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced,” gushed Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American surgeon and author, in...
In 1859, Oliver Wendell Holmes’s essay ‘The Stereoscope and the Stereograph’ celebrated the invention: The two eyes see different pictures of the same thing, for the obvious reason that they look from points two or three inches apart.
This particular viewer, known as the Holmes Stereoscope, was developed by physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) as a portable and economical alternative to the more expensive and bulky earlier models.
