Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D

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Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D

Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D

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There's a real nice spot [in the show] there it's set up for a guitar hero, so for a moment I can be a guitar hero," he said. Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3D is the latest book from Brian’s London Stereoscopic Company (LSC).

As regular readers will know, Brian May is a passionate evangelist for stereoscopic photography, and has been since Queen broke through in the 1970s. He had an exquisite eye for detail and composition, and pioneered his own chemical technique and ways of making the viewing cards. 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. Queen guitarist Brian May tells Geoff Harris how the pandemic inspired people worldwide to take great stereo photography. But the presentation also includes a dazzling array of historical images communicating the excitement of Stereoscopy in Victorian times, and a selection of Brian May’s own stereoscopic work depicting QUEEN from the inside, as well as his own history in stereoscopy.Some snapped the newly appreciated beauty of their immediate surrounding landscapes on permitted walks. In fact, the book had already gone to press by the time of the Ukraine invasion, but we wondered if we should have taken them out. I encouraged people to capture in a 3-D photograph what hope they felt, what beauty they could find in that tough situation. Unlike our previous books,’ he continues, ‘these images came in with every conceivable kind of alignment, framing etc, so it was an enormous job editing each one to get it to the optimum point.

This publication should set a few things right about the history of the first thirty years of the medium and should put stereoscopy once more in the limelight, where it rightfully belongs. The book is set to become a lasting testament to the evocative power and joy of 3-D photography, reinforcing Brian’s unshakeable conviction that Stereoscopy is Good For You! Brian May invited photographers from all round the world to submit 3-D photos capturing how they felt during lockdown. You’ll step into a mysterious room like a Victorian Emporium and see how the Victorians gasped at the invention of stereoscopic pictures. The result is the first ever book of captivating global 3-D photographs, with the special context of the whole world dealing with the Covid pandemic.

And, as the Covid restrictions eventually began to relax, the new stereographers ventured back out and reclaimed the world! 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. I’m thrilled that London’s prestigious PROUD gallery will be hosting our exhibition for a massive FIVE MONTHS. As well as many images from Europe, Stereoscopy is Good for You features work from farther-flung places. And that's what I enjoy: the writing, the production and the arrangement, but working with a singer.

In the old days you used to get a toy in a cereal packet and for a long time in Weetabix you would get a little card with two pictures that looked the same. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. In the book’s accompanying text, drawing on a lifetime’s passion for 3-D , Brian explains the origins, theory and practice of stereo photography. Even long after Queen had scored numerous hits and performed on some of the world's biggest stages, the band's success still amazes May. For this book, we put out an invitation to this global community to send us their stereoscopic memories of life during the Covid Years.

Among the images in the book is a stereoscopic portrait of Dickens taken moments before he began reading extracts from his Christmas stories to an audience in 1858, and another of the author writing at his desk. The flow of pictures has never stopped and the results are astonishing, with captivating images submitted, over the course of two years, from UK, Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Tanzania, Paraguay, Spain, Thailand, United States, Zanzibar and many more countries. The whole of the LSC is only about six people, and five of us were involved in the book,’ he explains, ‘so it wasn’t a big team but it was a very hard-working one. I have thought of some ways to make the process smoother but at the end of the day, you still have to sit and edit everything to the accuracy of a pixel. After the Victorians, it enjoyed a revival during the first world war, and again in the 1950s when the young May became enraptured.



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