TateShots: Brian May -Legendary Queen guitarist- on Victorian 3D Photography
Published on Oct 20, 2014
Long
before the red and green glasses of the 1950s and the cinematic
extravaganza of James Cameron's Avatar, the Victorians had their very
own 3D craze. Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May explains his obsession
with Victorian stereoscopic photographs.
Nineteenth-century photographic pioneers found they could take advantage of the human brain's capacity to create the illusion of depth from two flat images, and exploited it to the full. Queen guitarist Brian May has been collecting these striking images for over 40 years and now, for the first time, brings part of his collection together with some of the paintings that inspired them. A book of the photographs accompanies the display.
Nineteenth-century photographic pioneers found they could take advantage of the human brain's capacity to create the illusion of depth from two flat images, and exploited it to the full. Queen guitarist Brian May has been collecting these striking images for over 40 years and now, for the first time, brings part of his collection together with some of the paintings that inspired them. A book of the photographs accompanies the display.