The Art of Stereography: Rediscovering Vintage Three-Dimensional Images

by Douglas Heil

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476627243
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/02/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	100 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Douglas Heil is a radio-television-film professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches media aesthetics, scriptwriting and filmmaking.
Douglas Heil is a radio-television-film professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches media aesthetics, scriptwriting and filmmaking.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
I. Photography’s Bastard Offspring
II. A Gallery of the Alluring and the Emblematic
III. Charles Bierstadt: Romantic, Realist … Modernist?
IV. Individualism in Watkins and Havana Glens
V. Stereographic Humanism
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

this study provides information about an important, still relatively unknown arena of photographic practice...recommended”—Choice; “a wonderful contribution to the serious appreciation of stereography, and deserves recognition”—Stereo World.

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