Three-dimensional stereoviews were wildly popular in the mid-19th century. Yet public infatuation fueled highbrow scorn, and even when they fell from favor, critics retained their disdain. Thus a dazzling body of photographic work has unjustly been buried. This book explores how compelling images were made by carefully combining subject matter, composition, lighting, tonality, blocking and depth. It draws upon the fine arts, the mass media, humanities, history, and even geology. Throughout, overlooked photographers are celebrated, such as the one who found extraordinary visual parallels within nature, anticipating Cezanne and Seurat--or the one who refused to play favorites during a bitter war and found humanity on both sides--or the one who took a favorite American glen and found menace all about. Stereographers were actually more like film directors or television producers than large format photographers: the best ones fused artistry with commercial appeal.

Queen in 3-D is an inside view of one of the greatest rock acts of all time told in his own pictures and words by founder member, songwriter and guitarist Brian May. Complimentary 3-D OWL viewer included.

Excerpt from The Stereoscope and Stereoscopic Photography Of the stereoscope and stereoscopic photo graphy has been published in this country since about 1860, when Sir David Brewster gave to the world his now historic work. The active revival of stereoscopy brings with it the need of a modern treatise on the subject, more adapted to the times than the book of thirty years ago; for if in optical knowledge but few strides have been made, in matters photographic our progress has been enormous. The present work is almost a'literal translation from Le Stereoscope et la Photo graphie Stereoscopique of M. Drouin, only a few alterations and interpolations having been made in the necessary anglification. The metric system was adopted by the author, and it has been deemed advisable in most instances not to convert into. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.