Stereoscopy is Good For You: Life in 3-D

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A wondrous immersive exhibition celebrating the magic of stereoscopic 3-D photography in the 21st Century – 3rd November 2022 to 25th March 2023 Edited by Brian, the book contains the work of over 100 21st-century stereoscopic photographers from around the world during the COVID years. Analogue photography and women’s football- a match made in heaven? Harriet Duffy and Raiyan Rafiq explain why it has been for them. While getting books signed by Brian May, visitors will also have the opportunity to explore the wonders of the exhibition –“Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D”. 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.

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The book credits Charles Wheatstone as the inventor of the stereoscope. “He was denied his proper place, other people claimed that they had invented it, and some of those falsehoods survived until quite recently,” said May. The book sets the record straight, he added.

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But I am so, so proud of all of you – all of you contributors to the book – it’s incredible – it’s much better that I even imagined and the book started off quiet small and it grew and grew and suddenly I realised it was is very important because this is a statement of what stereoscopy is in the 21st century. But I think the book is such an important statement – I mean I wanted to make sure that everyone of you, to begin with, has a copy of the book. If you don’t have a copy of the book, we will sort that okay – but I hope you enjoy your copies.

Brian May explains the magic of stereoscopic photography

I’m thrilled that London’s prestigious PROUD gallery will be hosting our exhibition for a massive FIVE MONTHS. The stars seem to be aligning – this is IT ! “Stereoscopy Is Good For You” will put 3-D firmly on the map in 2022 !” Another revival came in the 1980s, and in 2009 “we had [the film] Avatar and every TV set you bought was 3D-ready. Where is it now? It’s all disappeared.”This show exhibits new 3-D photography from the LSC’s latest publication “Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D”. 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. Touchdown! As first ever sample of Bennu - believed to be the most hazardous asteroid in the universe - landed today in the Utah desert Does Brian think that some would-be exponents are put off by the time involved in stereoscopic photography? Or have apps made it much easier?

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Queen guitarist Brian May tells Geoff Harris how the pandemic inspired people worldwide to take great stereo photography. They are celebrated in a new book and exhibition. As part of the promotion for Brian’s forthcoming book Stereoscopy Is Good For You: Life in 3-D, a leading London photography gallery shall run a five-month exhibition, showcasing some of the captivating imagery. It’s amazing – I feel a little bit lost for words – I was quite nervous . My Press night last night – that’s where I’m sort of speaking to people who don’t know what stereo is…Tonight I‘m speaking to a room full of of experts in stereoscopy – right?! So I have to be really careful!Proud Galleries in collaboration with Brian May’s London StereoscopicCompany presentSTEREOSCOPY IS GOOD FOR YOU:LIFE IN 3-D I think without a doubt the fact that we have these cameras [on our phones] with us day in and day out changes the nature of photography. I think we have a yearning for the old ways. Brian May says : This is a thrill, and a first, to do a book signing session in my own store. I’m hoping this will lead to stereoscopy having a permanent home in London for the first time since the 19th century. 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. He is transferring all of them into the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy. The range of subjects in these entirely new stereo pictures is immense, with more than 100 contributing photographers finding inspiration in Nature, people, pets, architecture, the sky above, and much more. This book is set to become a lasting testament to the evocative power of 3-D photography.

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Working on this project, I learned all over again that the photographs we take say a lot more about US than the subject we capture. Viewing the stereoscopic work of others, we find ourselves completely transported to the place and time when their picture was taken. And there must be something in us which makes us yearn for the old kind of photography. Digital can

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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. The most important consideration was to avoid giving the reader a headache. You need to keep a firm watch on the convergence of the images and now they are aligned to avoid straining the readers’ eyes. And I’m really here just to say thank you – I can’t do a speech about how to take stereo picture because you all know! I can’t really do a story about how stereography was born because you all know that too right! I can point over there to Sir Charles Wheatstone and I think we should all raise a cheer for Charles Wheatstone – who made all this happen! I only use one, i3D Steroid for the iPhone (for Android phones, it’s called 3D Steroid). This is a very nice app and is very cheap, considering the developer, Masuji Suto, updates it for free. Suto-san is always open to suggestions too, a proper genius, and his pictures are also featured in Stereoscopy is Good for You.’ See the app store for your phone: i3DSteroid on the App Store/ 3DSteroid on Google Play. Major new exhibition We live in a stereoscopic universe. We’re just not aware of it. You look around and see everything solid in an amazing picture which your brain has generated. And it’s produced from these two slightly different images, which your eyes are capturing every second. We take still pictures to capture what’s around us but it’s a very poor capture. If you take a stereoscopic picture, it’s something which you can walk into at any time in the future and experience echoes of what you felt at that moment. Very strong echoes.