The Stereoscopic Picturesque: Nineteenth-Century Photography, Literary Landscapes, and the Third Dimension

by Bruce Graver

The Stereoscopic Picturesque is an interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century 3D photography and its relation to the picturesque tradition in art, literature, and tourism. The study focuses on the invention of the stereoscope, originally a laboratory device for demonstrating the nature of three-dimensional vision, and the simultaneous invention of photography, in order to show how early stereo photographers used the optics of the stereoscope...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183553791X
• ISBN13: 9781835537916
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages