Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D

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This long-awaited book is now heading towards release. All of you in our stereoscopic community know all about this – but I’m hoping to reach a million table-tips with this one – the work of a small army of artists that I’m so proud of !! Details to follow !!! Wait til you see the cover image – courtesy of Jane Sabini – in 3-D !!!

Stereoscopy Is Good For You – Contributors’ Event Stereoscopy Is Good For You – Contributors’ Event

While getting books signed by Brian May, visitors will also have the opportunity to explore the wonders of the exhibition –“Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D”. For the next 5 months, the exhibition will offer visitors the chance to experience 3-D first-hand, using May’s patent OWL viewers, in three areas channeling the new SIGFY book, the Birth of Stereoscopy, and QUEEN in 3-D. We are analogue creatures. We’ve gone into this digital world, but there’s always a bit of discomfort about it. You’re looking at approximations to analogue waveforms in sound and also in vision. We have a yearning to hear things from a vinyl record, because there’s something in your head which just loves that smoothness of a real analogue signal. Brian May says : This is a thrill, and a first, to do a book signing session in my own store. I’m hoping this will lead to stereoscopy having a permanent home in London for the first time since the 19th century. The book credits Charles Wheatstone as the inventor of the stereoscope. “He was denied his proper place, other people claimed that they had invented it, and some of those falsehoods survived until quite recently,” said May. The book sets the record straight, he added.Queen guitarist Brian May tells Geoff Harris how the pandemic inspired people worldwide to take great stereo photography. They are celebrated in a new book and exhibition.

Stereoscopy: Brian May celebrates ‘the Dawn of 3D’ Stereoscopy: Brian May celebrates ‘the Dawn of 3D’

BRIAN MAY Full Speech to Contributors “Stereoscopy Is Good For You” 02/11/2022 – side fill – clip by Andrea Botto The images were of two photographs of the same subject, taken from viewpoints about the same distance apart as human eyes. By looking at these images through the stereoscope, the two pictures appeared as one 3D image. May, who has a PhD in astrophysics, is in the process of acquiring another set of images that will make his collection of stereos the biggest in the world. He is transferring all of them into the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy.

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We all carry them around with us. If phone makers can put three cameras on here (he holds up his iPhone) it would be dead easy for them to put lenses one across the other.’ Does Brian think that some would-be exponents are put off by the time involved in stereoscopic photography? Or have apps made it much easier? I’m blown away by the fact that you guys came all came from so far from all over the world to actually be here with us tonight. It’s incredible to have all these fantastic faces that I’ve never seen before – lots of faces I have seen before – lots of work that I’ve seen before – and I’ve …and we’re all in one room, finally together.

Stereoscopy Is Good For You - Life in 3-D - LSC Official

I think without a doubt the fact that we have these cameras [on our phones] with us day in and day out changes the nature of photography. I think we have a yearning for the old ways. Brian, creator of the 21st-century incarnation of the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC), has become an Internet evangelist for 3-D photography in recent years. Through the LSC, he invited the world to capture uplifting images from the uncertainty of their new reality. As Covid continued to take its toll on the world, the fast growing stereo community kept on snapping away, lifting their spirits through this often neglected, but uniquely powerful photographic medium. Throughout the last two years thousands of powerful images came pouring in, celebrating nature, intriguing insects, people, pets, architecture, indoor recreations, even the sky above…. and a new title was born. I want to 3-D: stereoscopic images that come alive in Brian May’s book and exhibition from Andrew Lauren, New York

Returning to image making, Brian strongly believes that exploring stereo photography can benefit more conventional photographers, too. ‘This may sound corny, but taking stereo pictures does open your eyes. You see in a different way, as you need to imagine that you can see depth as well as everything else. The majority of LSC’s books have been historical,’ he says, ‘but this book is about photography for the common person, just as AP has set out its own agenda over the years. These are all amateurs who took part. They take stereoscopic pictures because they get a thrill, or a feeling of comfort or connection, or want to capture something that will evoke very strong emotions when they look at it later in life.’ It’s a hard life