The Many Facets of Stereoscopy: From the 1851 Great Exhibition to the 1950s

Denis Pellerin, photo historian, currently working as the curator of Dr. Brian May’s collection of Victorian photographs and Director of his London Stereoscopic Company, will show why 3-D has always been superior to 2-D and how it was used from the 1851 Great Exhibition to the 1950s to illustrate nearly everything under the sun. Thanks to the stereoscope armchair observers could explore faraway lands without leaving the comfort and safety of their home, visit royal and imperial palaces, face royalty and celebrities, glimpse at the people in the different levels of George Cruikshank’s British Bee Hive, admire statuary and precious artefacts away from crowds, remember scenes from operas, plays and pantomimes, take a peek at the underworld, at ghostly figures or at the inside of the human body, discover war in all its horror, and even learn how to identify enemy planes during the Second World War.

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (4.00-5.30pm) in the Shilling Building, Seminar Room 4

Please contact Dr Emmett Sullivan for further details.