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stereoscopy
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ster·e·os·co·py (str-sk-p)
n.
An optical technique by which two images of the same object are blended into one, giving a three-dimensional appearance to the single image.

stereoscopy 
The science dealing with the perception of three-dimensional effects and of producing them. See stereopsis.


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Bryan White, a member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA) and NSA (National Stereoscopic Association), shot the stereographs at Prelude Lake on the Ingrain Trail near Yellowknife, NWT, Canada with a pair of Olympics OM2 cameras mostly using Fugi Provia film.
Writing of the stereograph and photograph in 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes fantasized about a worldwide collection of images, a global visual library in which each image, "in order to render comparison of similar objects," would be taken and viewed under the same conditions.
Along with the gelatin silver prints that account for the majority of the images, some of the historic processes on display include daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, albumen prints, cabinet cards, stereographs, photograms, cartes-de-visite, carbon prints, boudoir cards, platinum prints, and Fresson prints.
 
 
 
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