The Poor Man's Picture Gallery
Stereoscopy Versus Paintings in the Victorian Era
Published on 9. October 2014
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-9574246-1-6 (ISBN)
Description
This astonishing set of stereocards from Brian Mays collection reconstructs 14 well-known Victorian works in Tate Britain using real actors and staged scenes. The stereos are contemporary with the paintings, and their existence was hitherto unknown outside the circle of specialist collectors of Victoriana. They were produced for commercial reasonsthe advent of a new painting by a great artist was big news, but most people were not able to access and enjoy the new works of art. Entrepreneurial photographers of the day reconstructed the scenes, photographed them, and sold the stereocards for profi t. In addition to their beauty, they shed light on the story of these famous paintings, and reveal a great deal about the society of the time. The format is to show the painting itself, followed by the stereocard versions of that painting with explanatory text.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Windlesham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Illustrated edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 325 mm
Width: 243 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
2196 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9574246-1-6 (9780957424616)
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Persons
Denis Pellerin, dedicated photo historian, was a teacher for over 30 years and has been interested in photography since the age of ten. He was bitten by the stereo bug in the 1980s, has been fascinated by the Diableries for over 25 years, and has written several books and articles on 19th-century stereo photography for various magazines, institutions and museums. He graduated with an MA in Art History at the Sorbonne in 1999 and has since been specializing in French and British Victorian genre stereo views.
Content
This book documents a period of fertile innovation in Victorian Britain, in the parallel worlds of popular paintings and steroscopic photography.; For a long time there has been a vague consensus among historians that the two media were connected, but never before has this fascinating relationship between two very different art forms been unravelled in detail...; All the stereo cards - the majority from the collection of Brian May - are reproduced exactly as the originals and can be viewed in glorious 3D using the supplied OWL viewer.; Artists include Landseer, Maclise, Wallis, Millais, Calderon, Lane, Frith, Nicol, Collins, Leslie, Hunt, and the stereo photographers were the most distinguished of that time.