These gifs made with old stereographs* are so intriguing! What an interesting way that something as weirdly niche and irrelevant as a gif can be coupled with a correlating oddity of media from a century ago. Though they are a little vertigo-inducing to look at. . .
Main corridor, White House. 1859?-1910?
Bicycle Parade (Safety.), Rochester, N.Y [ca. 1895] [1860?-1900?]
L. A. W., bicycle race, ordinary, the finish. 1865?-1880? 1890
*double pictures taken simultaneously, a couple inches apart in an effort to replicate the binocularity of human eyes)
Fascinating...the illusion of depth is there with only a slight modification of the cameras position. Question: I wonder,if you sped up the transition between the two picture, whether or not the 3D effect would be increased?
ReplyDeleteI imagine so--that or fading between the two would probably look more convincing.
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